Is multiplayer even against real players?

I feel like everyone I play against are AI. Also yeah I know this game is pure luck but it’s also extremely annoying when somehow both ‘players’ want to only skip me when I have no phases completed and they somehow get their phase complete on their first or second turn literally every time.

Just seems super suspicious that every ‘player’ I go up against has a photo of a landscape in the background or a extremely close up photo of their face. Multiplayer seems extremely hard to play I. This game.