Astroturfing in general in China is significantly harder, because for basically every internet account you need a Chinese mobile phone number, and getting that number is difficult if you can’t prove that you’re a real person. Mobile number and identity are tightly coupled in China, far more so than the West. So while real people might still make and post AI slop, there’s significantly less AI slop made by AI accounts because it’s very very hard to make an AI account.