One of the biggest reasons for the SAG strike is because of AI/DL generated footage of actors and actresses. We have seen bits of it in various Star Wars and the like, but tech is only getting better.

The current (arguably intentionally egregious) drama is the revelation/accusation that “Hollywood” are more or less telling performers that they want the rights to use them in all perpetuity. So Vin Diesel does one movie and then that studio can have an AI come on screen and say “family” for thousands of years. And this obviously resonates well with the Futurama gag

That said, the reality is a lot closer to what we have already seen. There is not a lot of value in owning the rights to an actor or actress because they will always “look off” no matter how photorealistic it gets. What “hollywood” instead wants is a training data database. Make your female actresses an amalgamation of all the most attractive features in human history but blended to be “imperfect” so that people believe it. Male actors who can combine Hugh Laurie’s eyes with Hugh Jackman’s body and so forth.

This was sort of tried in the early 2000s with Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within where the big deal was that the lead actress’s 3d model would become a real actress in her own right (even if she was voiced by Ming-Na Wen). It bombed for a lot of reasons, obviously. But, sticking with Final Fantasy, just look at how THIRSTY the internet got over trying to figure out who Jenny (or whatever lady ecoterrorist was called) was modeled after and the realization that she was likely a body morph of a bunch of actresses and models.