False positives—or “ghost modes”—in RF demodulation pipelines inflate operational costs when systems respond
to spurious detections. We quantify the economic and latency
impact of ghost hits using anomaly detection modules from the
SignalIntelligenceSystem. Iso-ghost contours illustrate
regions of high false-positive risk, while cost curves demonstrate
the penalty of over-recovery under real-time constraints. Together
with our companion work on probabilistic agentic sweeps [1],
this paper completes the picture: not only where failure rims
occur, but also what their economic consequences are. Results
show that ghost modes can increase operational costs by 3× in
high-uncertainty regions, with steepest penalties occurring under
sub-50ms latency constraints.