Imagine once VR/AR become mainstream. You'd have real artists having simul-cencerts in ten stadiums (or in homes for the homebodies) competing against anime performers who don't get exhausted or get sick or who want to retire... So the farce of the "artist" can be all done with --just corporate manufactured music entertainment.
You make it sound like it's something other than utopian paradise. I will never interact with any of the artists I listen to so whether or not they are "real" makes no difference to me. Especially since a lot of artists have stage personas who aren't "real" either so it comes down to whether the part is played by a human actor or an animated one.
True but now it won't be an artist but personaes put together collectively using metrics and other marketing inputs. There will be no ruse. It'll be obvious and in son ways it's better than pretense.
And, as long as people get value out of that, I'm okay.