Now they don't need to hire a lookalike actor or impersonator, so that both greatly reduces the chance of the getting caught because you can use someone already on your team (instead of an actor), and increases your capabilities because you can call more targets, more often.
At last a genuine case of computers improving productivity ...
I don't know too much about deepfakes, but I'd imagine that you still need some actor, and having them at least remotely resemble the target character is probably helpful. You still need the source actor to act the mannerisms, way of speaking, physical posture etc of the target character
Nope. It's more like puppeteering an image. No initial similarity required. It's not directly discussed in the below link but extending this technique to arbitrary new faces or even cartoon characters isn't truly difficult anymore.
World leaders start discussing their childhood pets in person, in order to have good online authentication questions. And inadvertently create a new era of world peace through better understanding and appreciating one another.
At last a genuine case of computers improving productivity ...