It asks some Instagram users – those who might be suspected not to be real people but just algorithms – to show their faces from multiple sides by creating a self-video, to prove that they are human and not sticks.
The social site wants to make it more difficult for user accounts created by bots to spread across its interface, to spam messages and comments, or to create artificially high tracking numbers for certain accounts. let’s think as an example To a scam campaign that has spread among Hungarian users for several days, where unknown accounts – presumably bots – mark Instagram accounts within posts announcing they have won a Dyson Supersonic hair dryer.
According to the information provided by Instagram, some real users may be asked to identify the video because their system has detected similar behavior of bots in this profile, like a surprisingly large number of other accounts.
Video self introduction is According to XDA Developers Instagram began testing last year, but it ran into technical difficulties, so the feature was not widely introduced. There are many users on Twitter shown In the past few days their account has been suspended and then asked to identify themselves using the video.
Instagram keeps the video for 30 days, but does not use facial identification or biometrics and does not make the recording public – read the warning message, which also describes the angle at which the user’s phone is held to ensure the best possible facial recognition work. . The social network says their security team is checking the footage to determine if they’re watching a real video.
