The situation's exactly the same as in Asimov's short story "The Machine That Won The War". Everybody knows that the numbers they're getting from other sources are fake, so they have to fake up their own numbers to try to compensate...and soon enough, the greatest computer in the history of the world is more-or-less useless because it has no real data to work with.

The situation's exactly the same as in Asimov's short story The Machine That Won The War. Everybody knows that the numbers they're getting from other sources are fake, so they have to fake up their own numbers to try to compensate...and soon enough, the greatest computer in the history of the world is more-or-less useless because it has no real data to work with.