Not necessarily; rising tide and all that. When a new scam like this emerges, it behooves all of the grifters to cooperate and not muddy the waters with distrust.
I’m normally very skeptical of conspiracy theories. But saw an AI booster bot responding to a negative AI post I made here.
Someone pointed out to me in the comments that the username had posted long replies to 3 completely different threads in the same minute. That and looking back at its post history confirmed it was a bot.