Pith Number

pith:BGGD3XDM

pith:2026:BGGD3XDMPYCPYCHM7LQEK3ITMK

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AI translation of literary texts is "fine", but readers still prefer human translations

Adam Podoxin, Maite Taboada, Marzena Karpinska, Roman Grundkiewicz, Ty Brassington, Yves Ferstler

arxiv:2606.26040 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BGGD3XDMPYCPYCHM7LQEK3ITMK}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-25T01:18:46.624067Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

098c3ddc6c7e04fc08ecfae0456d136289b69065ed978abb95b944b861740b00

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26040 · arxiv_version: 2606.26040v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26040 · pith_short_12: BGGD3XDMPYCP · pith_short_16: BGGD3XDMPYCPYCHM · pith_short_8: BGGD3XDM

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BGGD3XDMPYCPYCHM7LQEK3ITMK \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 098c3ddc6c7e04fc08ecfae0456d136289b69065ed978abb95b944b861740b00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc65945ce099c280d8aeea01ac48c0f427920a5e2fa947d0e42ab3d643716c29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T17:15:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70bc819f5f36d49e0618994a80e7feb1969b44c5891ecd0e5413f606e5bea584"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}