Tbh as a young dev without a lot of experience in today's market (added because of some of the comments), you need to have a professional LinkedIn persona, and that's true with many jobs. I can see this being useful for those who can't afford/don't have access to a way to get a good headshot.

That being said I'd be wary of what service you use to make a headshot, because a lot of them will probably use your data to train their AI, and/or steal the data from your cellphone if it's an app

[–] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This makes me wonder if anyone has tried to pass off an AI generated photo of themselves as a passport photo or some other important official license/document yet. How would that go from a legal-trouble standpoint I wonder?

[–] onion@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

I think the EU is mandating fingerprints now

[–] neeeeDanke@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

A while ago a collective in germany used a software to merge the faces of two people into one photo and used it on their passport. On one hand the idea was to evade facial-recognition software which uses the passports photo. On the other to use the passport to smuggle refugees into europe by plane.

I am not sure the software was based on Machine learning but would strongly suspect it.

(Source in German: https://taz.de/Peng-Kollektiv-faelscht-Passbilder/!5534868/ )