Pith Number

pith:ZZX3ATEB

pith:2026:ZZX3ATEBPSCRK2BKQCPWSY4JNL

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Some hypotheses on how chatbots work in problem-solving-driven conversations. Large Language Models as confirmation of the Innovation Illusion

H.D. Lethe jr, S.F.M. van Vlijmen

arxiv:2606.07722 v1 · 2026-06-05 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZZX3ATEBPSCRK2BKQCPWSY4JNL}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-06-09T01:04:50.293118Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce6fb04c817c8515682a809f6963896ac3a12dbb81e92bdb30cf3f442534afb9

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07722 · arxiv_version: 2606.07722v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07722 · pith_short_12: ZZX3ATEBPSCR · pith_short_16: ZZX3ATEBPSCRK2BK · pith_short_8: ZZX3ATEB

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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/ZZX3ATEBPSCRK2BKQCPWSY4JNL \
  | 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: ce6fb04c817c8515682a809f6963896ac3a12dbb81e92bdb30cf3f442534afb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0c44c42c56f85e7d743a9847751d54c3d82de6007940a51ca5911858b3fca64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-05T16:04:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "163a073312dbd0be9f14d6780f348de9682cee3f6788f26bb078df9a1c9536e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07722",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}