Religion claims that certain things are true when they contradict observable reality. There's no fundamental difference between claimed gods and deepfaked ones.

Many of the claims of religion can’t be contradicted by observed reality because they are pointing to things beyond the observable (ie non-Falsifiable, like the proposed existence of a multiverse).

For example, religion claims you have free well. For a materialist, any interesting definition of free will is impossible, because we are made of quantum particles with defined statistical behavior.

Of course, we cannot prove or disprove the existence of free will in other people either…

The deepfaked ones actually speak.

Religion is a very complicated and touchy subject - it means drastically different things to different people.