>>10798816 (lb)
If you are really asking why would magi use props and puppets to deceive you, then you are a fucking fool.
Show business IS the INCEPTION by DECEPTION business. With near limitless funding. Medea is greek, Sorcery.
Expand your thinking. Why do none of them ever out their industries? Threats of replacement or actual replacement.
Al Roker
Dave Chapelle
etc
These are owned assets, these personas. If a bot could be made and be under total control, with updates and mods controlled by quantum AI in real time, it will never miss a show, get sick, mess up, etc. Total control.
Would any 'trusted media personality' be any less? At least H+ at this point for more of them than most would care to accept…
And some are completely machines.
cloning, consciousness transfers, humanoid androids are all real. Why would one assume we know the true extent of those and other similar unknown advanced technologies used to form our minds through media?