One of the ways I&#x27;ve seen botnets skirt this problem is by using cartoon profile pictures. Cartoon bots don&#x27;t work quite as well on Facebook as they do on Twitter and Instagram (where they&#x27;re only used to inflate favorite&#x2F;follower stats, not to sell stuff). Unfortunately, it&#x27;s probably hard to convince someone to hail a Lyft if &quot;social proof&quot; is coming from someone with a cartoon face.<p>With that said, these bot puppeteers <i>could</i> feasibly get around identity theft&#x2F;copyright&#x2F;social proof issues by using CC0 stock photography sites. There&#x27;s plenty of free photos out there for people to use, i.e. as profile pictures.<p>Not that it&#x27;d be any more ethical, but at least it would be legal.