I saw a similar story in Chinese media recently. It was about an actor who rented out their likeness rights to an AI company. Becoming an actor is incredibly difficult, starting with connections and all that, and they still had to make a living. So they sold their likeness rights to an AI company.

The AI company then used the actor's likeness to create AI videos with the actor's face. The problem was that the public judged the quality of the AI videos as low quality. Whether that judgment was true or just prejudice, it ended up tarnishing the actor's image as cheap as well. The actor became stuck as a low quality actor who could not land any major roles.

These days, users perceive AI as low quality, yet they create so much with it and consume so much of it. The irony is that if this keeps up, humans might end up imitating AI.