Deepfakes – the art of inserting someone’s likeness into a video, thereby creating an artificial rendition of a person – has been around for a while. Although some of the initial applications were dubious, being used to insert celebrities’ likenesses into pornography or to seemingly place someone into a compromising position, we are now moving into mass use of the technology for more positive use cases.
Recently, we have seen it applied in movies so actors can play younger versions of themsel...