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> with enough investment and exposure on screen, they could manufacture a pseudo-B-lister then start printing money.

Why not? They'll only be printing money if the audience likes it.

I think we are already seeing that with "artificial" influencers in China/Japan. This is only the next natural step IMHO.

Didn't they already do that? There was an actor was who was digitally de-aged in some film a couple of years ago.