Pith Number

pith:ZRF4PXZ2

pith:2019:ZRF4PXZ2VI5F5744QEF2BKQG4M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Autonomy, Authenticity, Authorship and Intention in computer generated art

Jon McCormack, Patrick Hutchings, Toby Gifford

arxiv:1903.02166 v1 · 2019-03-06 · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.NE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZRF4PXZ2VI5F5744QEF2BKQG4M}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:56.591222Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc4bc7df3aaa3a5eff9c810ba0aa06e3097d8801dbed67b16bb5d4f2f9460db3

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.02166 · arxiv_version: 1903.02166v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.02166 · pith_short_12: ZRF4PXZ2VI5F · pith_short_16: ZRF4PXZ2VI5F5744 · pith_short_8: ZRF4PXZ2

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/ZRF4PXZ2VI5F5744QEF2BKQG4M \
  | 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: cc4bc7df3aaa3a5eff9c810ba0aa06e3097d8801dbed67b16bb5d4f2f9460db3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d3809462622f8b45724d59a3b4c05f38829624f5078c1b6308f936df1431a54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-06T04:06:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c81d7b89269017b8ef4c7a7ec8edddf7c9bc1e9a9b9b477439a03595aa2f802e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.02166",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}