Most of us are probably familiar with the term “deepfake”; have become increasingly common.

For those less familiar, a deepfake is an actual digital impersonation, usually of a known person. They can take the form of face recreation (where software manipulates an individual’s facial features), face generation (where a new face is created), face swapping (where one person’s face is swapped with another’s) and speech synthesis (where voices are recreated).

The metaverse and deepfakes

Given the ability of a deepfake to make it appear that a person has acted in a way that they have not, it poses a direct threat to the accuracy of information relating to any person in a digital environment.

The advent of the…