Interestingly, there was a discussion a week ago on "PRC elites voice AI-skepticism". One commentator was arguing that:

As the model get's more powerful, you can't simply train the model on your narrative if it doesn't align with real data/world. [1]

So at least on the model side it seems difficult to go against the real world.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050177