Pith Number

pith:OT3HWBN5

pith:2026:OT3HWBN5PTZVRQHBRHKZ2742GC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

AI Fiction in the Wild

Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh, Neel Gupta

arxiv:2606.22748 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.CY

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OT3HWBN5PTZVRQHBRHKZ2742GC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-06-23T02:13:46.196019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74f67b05bd7cf358c0e189d59d7f9a309c9feb0f5b4f9894e8b700ad46ed35ff

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22748 · arxiv_version: 2606.22748v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22748 · pith_short_12: OT3HWBN5PTZV · pith_short_16: OT3HWBN5PTZVRQHB · pith_short_8: OT3HWBN5

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/OT3HWBN5PTZVRQHBRHKZ2742GC \
  | 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: 74f67b05bd7cf358c0e189d59d7f9a309c9feb0f5b4f9894e8b700ad46ed35ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8dd5f3e18fa761025457e621f418ac22e7a68cc5eb04501cfda3739369a83359",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T01:29:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b40146eebc888d5809ff00c04a2a77b73b016d85116a924e895eaffdc665abe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22748",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}