The Hidden Cost of Semantic Chaos Why Your AI Investment Is Underperforming—And What To Do About It

"The Hidden Cost of Semantic Chaos Why Your AI Investment Is Underperforming" is a 1,285-word short work by Rex Fraction, a heteronym within the Dodecad system of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, dated 2026-01-03. Organizations are spending millions on AI deployments that underperform because of a problem they don't know they have: semantic chaos. When internal terminology is inconsistent, AI systems hallucinate, leak context, and compound errors at scale. The solution isn't better AI—it's better semantic infrastructure. The work is classified under the STRUCTURAL semantic family within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It was removed from Zenodo on June 19, 2026 and is preserved through Alexanarch.