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by lm28469 459 days ago
Sure but I see absolutely no way a picture would allow you to tell if someone's a bot or not.

You can already generate a profile picture and have it lip synced with a text to speech audio (or even speech to speech). It's a losing (lost?) fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK8sgB-58q0

Internet is rapidly becoming a pile of steaming shit already, captchas were annoying but now it seems the "are you a robot" test is coming everywhere, what a sad state of affairs. I wonder how much of the overall traffic is automated, 80%? 90% ?