You might have seen it in one of apps trending the last few weeks: you upload your photo and you now have a video of yourself doing a dance number or performing a song while projecting a better version of you – a younger, more beautiful and perhaps a more confident you.

Deepfake as defined by Wikipedia is considered as synthetic media wherein a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone. It is a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake." Not only is it easy to make, but the ability to deceive is relatively high given this technology. Considering the amount of data that is shared online, it is not impossible that this technology can be misused to serve ill intentions.

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