Pith Number

pith:H3KAEVMY

pith:2024:H3KAEVMY6B57OYMLZRQMSKUXOW

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Search Engines Post-ChatGPT: How Generative Artificial Intelligence Could Make Search Less Reliable

Jevin D. West, Shahan Ali Memon

arxiv:2402.11707 v1 · 2024-02-18 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H3KAEVMY6B57OYMLZRQMSKUXOW}

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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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2 papers in Pith

Synthetic Sources?: Auditing Generative Search Engine Citations for Evidence of AI-Generated Sources

Attribution Gradients: Incrementally Unfolding Citations for Critical Examination of Attributed AI Answers

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:46:43.400266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ed4025598f07bf7618bcc60c92a97758601f6c64a30bc6136a6ac1b4de1eea6

Aliases

arxiv: 2402.11707 · arxiv_version: 2402.11707v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2402.11707 · pith_short_12: H3KAEVMY6B57 · pith_short_16: H3KAEVMY6B57OYML · pith_short_8: H3KAEVMY

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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/H3KAEVMY6B57OYMLZRQMSKUXOW \
  | 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: 3ed4025598f07bf7618bcc60c92a97758601f6c64a30bc6136a6ac1b4de1eea6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41cc63c4c922d187ae53d96a0b4c36449bf4d4f9837e02936db81cb9152ac368",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2024-02-18T21:10:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a43fb2e5b6cbf6678268acbbfefa21f21d7fbb14fe2ac7d3a3c0a0dc7526da75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2402.11707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}