The AI-misinformation conversation is not divided between people who take the threat seriously and people who do not. It is divided between people who define the threat differently and are therefore watching different failure modes. The generation camp counts deepfakes, scam operations, and synthetic propaganda as the core problem; the detection camp counts inadequate moderation tools as the core problem. Both camps share the same factual record — the same viral incidents, the same platform decisions — and draw opposite conclusions from it. That structural divergence explains why the conversation…