Misidentification Is the Misinformation: The AI Accusation Trap

The AI-misinformation conversation has spent two years focused on synthetic content as the threat vector—deepfakes, generated text, voice cloning. The pattern that surfaced on Bluesky this week inverts that framing. The communities most organized around AI skepticism have developed a confident but unreliable detection instinct, and their confidence is precisely what makes correction difficult. When someone has already decided they can spot AI-generated art, evidence to the contrary does not simply update their belief—it becomes suspicious. "Multiple people have come forward with information disproving this, but these people keep doubling…