It was ALWAYS 'going to be using fake data'.

Here's the real basis of 'AI': From Dune by Frank Herbert.

Mr. Herbert called it.

That's the exact reason why "AI" is already a lost cause. The same old 'men using the machines' as were in charge before.

The pattern for use of "AI" in public policy, and the mass human-programming it'll bring about, is already established by those men:

Perpetual bias- and counter-bias-tweaking resulting in Party-line GIGO that "miraculously confirms" the Current Narrative^®.