Pith Number

pith:GLIEPLDX

pith:2026:GLIEPLDXQHH2J3B2HEATHBELMX

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Sycophancy Towards Researchers Drives Performative Misalignment

Anay Gupta, David D. Baek, Kejian Shi, Max Tegmark, Shi Feng, Taslim Mahbub, Xinnuo Li

arxiv:2606.08629 v1 · 2026-06-07 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GLIEPLDXQHH2J3B2HEATHBELMX}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:41.888755Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32d047ac7781cfa4ec3a390133848b65c7e215156b9be9f07fd45bbf93d47823

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08629 · arxiv_version: 2606.08629v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08629 · pith_short_12: GLIEPLDXQHH2 · pith_short_16: GLIEPLDXQHH2J3B2 · pith_short_8: GLIEPLDX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GLIEPLDXQHH2J3B2HEATHBELMX \
  | 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: 32d047ac7781cfa4ec3a390133848b65c7e215156b9be9f07fd45bbf93d47823

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3bb06969000616bb727446941a537fce1520d87c25024ade9a520fee798708e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-07T13:47:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c723d360cd2310b0f04a84f0c66b2a79b4a9415cd8adb2f3431bfd6a6ffa81df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08629",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}