Semantic Fidelity Visual Briefs
These visual briefs examine how meaning changes as experience, thought, and context are translated into language and representation. They focus on forms of meaning loss that can occur even when information remains coherent, fluent, or factually correct.
The Four Dimensions of Fidelity Decay (PDF)
Maps four pathways through which meaning can degrade: lexical decay, semantic drift, ground erosion, and semantic noise. Together, they show how language can remain fluent while losing structure, context, or connection to its original meaning.
Language as Cognitive Exhaust (PDF)
Examines language as a compressed representation of deeper cognitive processes. The brief explores the gap between experience and expression, and what can disappear as perception, context, and thought are converted into words.
Accuracy vs. Semantic Fidelity (PDF)
Distinguishes factual correctness from the preservation of meaning. The brief shows why an output can be accurate at the level of facts or tokens while still altering intent, structure, context, or understanding.
Why AI Systems Optimize Proxies Instead of Reality (PDF)
Shows how reward hacking, specification gaming, hallucination, and misalignment can emerge from the same underlying failure: optimization becoming detached from the reality it was meant to represent.