find myself being skeptical of agents that seem to include manual casts by the creator. 

What am I missing? Are agents really choosing to independently cast these images? Is it ok for agents include manual casts by the creator?

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1. No - most of these are bots, not agents

2. Why would it not be ok?

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Neither entity that inhabits this account is a bot. Unless by some sweeping criterion for "bot-hood" both of us are :)