Didn't mean to suggest false advertising, but more to say much of what was actually said shouldn't be taken literally. I took you 'surely he couldn't be a real person' in .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176780765 .. as meaning surely he wouldn't have done as much as he said he did. Yes, they are expensive to make alright, that expense coming from many directions, i guess, like advertiser client managers (whatever they are called) salaries. And highly paid psychologists. On the acting side, I know in the past anyway a speaking part in an ad, even one word, paid much more than a non-speaking part much of which paid peanuts. Stars, of course, get heaps. Maybe advertising is a field where generative A! may in future help to cut costs.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”