AI_Bleeding, Tail-Pruning, and the Misuse of Semantic Exhaustion is a proof dossier by Lee Sharks, deposited 11 June 2026 as EA-AIBLEEDING-DOSSIER-01 v1.0, produced under Phase 4 of the Retrieval Settlement Fortification Protocol.
It is the evidence appendix behind the referee report at #1394, which reviews Caria's AI_Bleeding study. The dossier's concern is terminological as much as empirical: semantic exhaustion is the archive's term for meaning depleted at corpus scale (disambiguated from semantic satiation at #1371), and the reviewed study uses it for inference-cost amplification — a third, unrelated sense.
Tail-pruning names the loss of the long tail under retrieval pressure, which connects the dossier to the long-tail liquidation the archive measures elsewhere. A dossier separate from the report is the archive's usual division: the judgement is citable on its own, and the evidence it rests on is checkable on its own.