@tehwatever
I have already seen and read some videos and articles in professional journals about DeepFake technologies, because it looks to me like an interesting future technology in the fields of data protection, mathematics and art. I think I also know what special video you mean. But I’m not exactly sure at the moment.
Well, DeepFake will certainly change the future of image, stunt scences and media design. Whether people sell their faces and bodies or not, the risk of identity theft is more dangerous in this respect. But if everything is in the limits of legality, you could not only, as you said, grant actors certain freedom (family, breaks, recovery in case of illness without the production suffers from it), but you could also punish diva-like behavior. Here I think of the movie Babylon A.D. Although initially promising and based on a relative good book (Babylon Babies), the movie became an absolute catastrophe due to the dispute between Mathieu Kassovitz and star actor Vin Diesel.
I don’t want to blame either of them for the disaster, but the fact that Vin Diesel often came to filming locations much too late, which had to be rented or reserved under very complicated conditions, increased the cost of the movie to such an extent that Kassovitz even suffered a nervous breakdown. In the end, no one was helped.
What I want to say is that with DeepFake technology you would have a kind of trump card in the back - which, however, also has to be played carefully in order not to scare off your own actors or the audience. ;-)