Of course it isn’t all botted. You don’t put astroturf muscle behind things that are worthless. You wait until you have something genuinely good and then give as big of a push as you can. The better it genuinely is the more you artificially push as hard as you can.
Go read a bunch of AI related subreddits and tell me you honestly believe all the comments and upvotes are just from normal people living their normal life.
Usually, the words 'astroturfing' and 'propaganda' aren't reserved for describing the marketing strategies of valuable products/ideologies. Maybe reconsider your terminology.
This is not a serious place