the end of Gmail ? (selfie verification for accounts)

Is this new ? i have not seen this before...
I tried to login to my main Gmail account today and received this message

Add a selfie for sign-in

Saving a selfie video can help you get into your Google Account if you have trouble signing in.
" email "
Take a short video of your face

You'll need to take a selfie video where you show different angles of your face. Recording this selfie video will take only a few moments.

Skip for now

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/

Apparently it’s a new passwordless sign-in option.

Personally, I’ll stick with not giving Google's AI a scan of my face and continue using the archaic keyboard login.

Yes, this is new. I encountered this Google verification while logging into my Gmail account.

Stavro said:

Personally, I’ll stick with not giving Google's AI a scan of my face and continue using the archaic keyboard login.

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True, the moment they make this mandatory, im out.
the QR codes was already annoying.

a disaster, im not giving my face to those rats

Every big tech will start to ask for your face with the narrative of keeping community safe and separating what is really real and what's AI