To achieve high status for the max amount of people you could invent more categories in which to achieve status. There is not just one best actress, but many in different types of acting. There can be the best person to make some specific dish. The best dancer of type X. Then you can seclude it by region any come out with many many more things, till everyone is famous who desires so. Alternatively the AI could find out if there is any desire beyond the wish for status and fulfill that instead, or offer a self modification for people that desire status, but desire to change that to something else.