Is AI a friend or foe of the Japanese entertainment industry?

Tsumugi-nen is an online entertainer that streams content daily to her over 73,000 subscribers on YouTube, using a virtual avatar of herself. She is a popular VTuber -- short for virtual YouTuber -- in Japan. Except, she doesn't quite match that description 100%. She's actually an artificial intelligence-generated talent developed and managed by 29-year-old Hayato Akedo and his AI talent agency, Pictoria.