Semantic Exhaustion Is Not GPU Exhaustion is a formal disambiguation paper led by Lee Sharks.
It distinguishes semantic exhaustion as a political-economic theory of depleted meaning-production from a later use of the same phrase for GPU and inference-resource consumption under unusual linguistic input.
The two senses differ in object, mechanism, timescale, metrics, and policy orientation. The paper also separates both from semantic satiation, the psycholinguistic effect of repeated words.
The work records the archive’s claimed earlier persistent-identifier use and recommends separate entity resolution. It does not establish exclusive ownership of the phrase in all contexts.