[cyrillite]

What constitutes a “professional headshot” is nothing more than a set of shared norms. Those norms will change rapidly (and have been changing, actually) to include AI Generated headshots. You can already find plenty of headshots that are an AI amalgamation of someone’s selfies. Most of the time you don’t notice until you’re looking a little more closely. That service will only get better and cheaper, and norms will shift too.

[relaxing]

I’m calling it now: in a few years the amalgamated style of AI headshots will look desperately uncool. Even lighting, defocused background, too-perfect hair, senseless focus on the wrong details, etc.

All it will take is one trendsetter to get the ball rolling, accelerated by the backlash against scam profiles, and all the current AI models will be worthless for the task.