Recent headlines have spotlighted how criminal actors use “deepfakes” to spread misinformation and carry out social engineering attacks.
The social disruption caused by these hyper-realistic forgeries has captured public attention and concern. The absence of comprehensive regulation, combined with the growing availability of deepfake software-as-a-service tools, is fueling a difficult problem to tackle.
The payments industry plays a critical role in the deepfake fight. The digital commerce landscape is inundated with online services that facilitate deepfake creation via artificial intelligence.
