[saiya-jin]

Why couldn't it? Imagine doing some Comic Con 45 min special with your virtual actor. Yes its not the same fame, but people will adjust quickly. If they mix together good voice recognition in real time they can do press conferences rather easily, its just about gluing well together already existing pieces. There may be hilarious glitches from time to time, but who cares?

No real fame was achieved about stupid stuff like opening restaurants or random sights in the town, I think we as society can easily live without that.

[crooked-v]

We already have that, though - the Gorillaz, Hatsune Miku, etc. They've had success, but not nearly enough to drive any kind of mass-market adoption of the concept that would displace real-life celebs from the talk show marketing circuit.