+1 for proton, though I think modern VM tech very little overhead these days.

Not directly answering your question but legally I think you’re better off claiming to impersonate a famous person than to have the AI claim to be them.

Empathy is like sharing an experience.

Alice is holding a stack of papers, they get a papercut and react (yelp, pull their hand back, maybe suck on the injury). Bob sees Alice’s experience and may remember when they had gotten a papercut before or just imagine what that experience is like, and will share in the same feelings (or how Bob would imagine Alice is feeling, anyway). Bob may yelp too, or fidget with their own (uninjured) finger.