Pith Number

pith:FE44O2YX

pith:2023:FE44O2YXS6ZYRCWEEEJBC34F7P

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Are ChatGPT and Other Similar Systems the Modern Lernaean Hydras of AI?

Andrew Bowne, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Harriet S. Bryant, Jeremy Kepner

arxiv:2306.09267 v3 · 2023-06-15 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.DL · cs.LG · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{FE44O2YXS6ZYRCWEEEJBC34F7P}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:39:09.621510Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2939c76b1797b3888ac42112116f85fbfaeb8ffe52d72e334f839fd65395d8f1

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.09267 · arxiv_version: 2306.09267v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.09267 · pith_short_12: FE44O2YXS6ZY · pith_short_16: FE44O2YXS6ZYRCWE · pith_short_8: FE44O2YX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FE44O2YXS6ZYRCWEEEJBC34F7P \
  | 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: 2939c76b1797b3888ac42112116f85fbfaeb8ffe52d72e334f839fd65395d8f1

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-15T16:40:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40ad0d0326a2d0450231a96b2619baf366787728d1caa81f0da0ca5cc677b9a6"
  },
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  }
}