Pith Number

pith:VS3UOA6A

pith:2026:VS3UOA6ASDNB2FTH3O2TAH2NZU

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When AI Tells You What You Want to Hear: Sycophantic Behavior of Large Language Models in Dementia Care Settings

Christian Kolb

arxiv:2605.16288 v1 · 2026-04-13 · cs.CY · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VS3UOA6ASDNB2FTH3O2TAH2NZU}

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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	2026-05-20T00:02:15.538503Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acb74703c090da1d1667dbb5301f4dcd3a51bb0376db5578e58910aeaf9c6e20

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16288 · arxiv_version: 2605.16288v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16288 · pith_short_12: VS3UOA6ASDNB · pith_short_16: VS3UOA6ASDNB2FTH · pith_short_8: VS3UOA6A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VS3UOA6ASDNB2FTH3O2TAH2NZU \
  | 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: acb74703c090da1d1667dbb5301f4dcd3a51bb0376db5578e58910aeaf9c6e20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "702f80f76829f19518124a0937065be8bd812170a7181e52c24e8a8439aa67f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-13T12:41:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "748b6e3c71d9b0e5ddfe76632a271bf607f7d9617c2658039f07ab165ae43e95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16288",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}