>"the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans." -PKD
Second Variety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
The Father Thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Father-thing
The Hanging Stranger:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanging_Stranger
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_...
Quite a few, actually! Fake humans were his specialty.
Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/henry-farrell-philip-k...
>"the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans." -PKD