I hope there are payoffs I don't see yet. Tucker must know the score, so this must be "fakery" and the permission aspect implies no concern from the real legal entity Kevin Spacey. So, it points to Spacey is in submission, and working (in silico perhaps) to show, not us, but them, that submission is happening.

Deep comms. Either that or the enemy shows off his power at a new level, and Tucker is a rug-pull of epic proportions... So even though AI/covert death announcement is radical, all other options are too, so.