Pith Number

pith:2T6KZE53

pith:2026:2T6KZE534QRGFEICAJOAH6GIKK

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When Preferences Fail to Become Incentives: A Utility-Behavior Gap in Large Language Models

Christopher M. Ackerman, Yujun Zhou

arxiv:2606.22974 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2T6KZE534QRGFEICAJOAH6GIKK}

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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	2026-06-23T03:14:05.674880Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4fcac93bbe422629102025c03f8c85286e95ed23f8c20f98c22c596276757ba

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22974 · arxiv_version: 2606.22974v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22974 · pith_short_12: 2T6KZE534QRG · pith_short_16: 2T6KZE534QRGFEIC · pith_short_8: 2T6KZE53

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2T6KZE534QRGFEICAJOAH6GIKK \
  | 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: d4fcac93bbe422629102025c03f8c85286e95ed23f8c20f98c22c596276757ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40c9545654836ca5392651565ec17dfbe8151e7d4c8b0cccf2586bec3a694195",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T07:54:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "696e726fff56d5340922f542f4271066b3b1423bb27f35a09978f01ac06f6e65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22974",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}