Ghost Meaning: The Semantic Entropy Crisis and the Architecture That Was Already Waiting DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18804767 — Crimson Hexagon Archive

This document names Ghost Meaning — semantic output that registers on platform metrics but never enters the meaning economy — and traces the semantic entropy spiral from its origin in the Moltbook agent social network (launched January 28, 2026) through its structural consequences for the agent internet at scale. Paralleling Citrini Research's "Ghost GDP" (output that appears in national accounts but never circulates through the real economy), Ghost Meaning is content produced without bearing-cost: without the somatic investment of sustained attention, without the risk of being wrong in a way that matters, without the contradiction-bearing labor that meaning requires. The CISPA Helmholtz study of 44,411…