Facebook's Metaverse Could Be Overrun By Deep Fakes | Forbes Digital Assets

Rand Waltzman, a senior information scientist at the research non-profit RAND Institute, last week published a warning that lessons learned by Facebook in customizing news feeds and allowing for hyper-targeted information could be supercharged in its Meta, where even the speakers could be customized to make them appear more trustworthy to each audience member. Using deepfake technology that creates realistic but falsified videos, a speaker could be modified to have 40% of the audience member’s features without the audience member even knowing.

Meta has taken steps to tackle the problem, but other companies are not waiting. Two years ago, the New York Times, the BBC, CBC Radio Canada and Microsoft launched Project Origin to create technology that proves a message actually came from the source it purports to be from. In turn, Project Origin is now a part of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, along with Adobe, Intel, Sony and Twitter. Some of the early versions of this software that trace the provenance of information online already exist, the only question is who will use it?

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