Would make for a good book, company hires famous writer, trains an ai on them, tortures them to sign over their likeness rights and then murders them. Keeps up appearances of life via video gen, voice gen and writing gen.
Almost the plot of The Congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
Almost the plot of The Congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)