Pith Number

pith:4MTHSUDF

pith:2026:4MTHSUDFRUUTG66ZGKNLAHB6XB

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Can an AI System Be Creative? A Critical Perspective from Art and Engineering

Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau

arxiv:2607.20796 v1 · 2026-07-22 · cs.AI · cs.HC · cs.MM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4MTHSUDFRUUTG66ZGKNLAHB6XB}

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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	2026-07-24T00:23:35.238664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3267950658d29337bd9329ab01c3eb86b39078618d09f978bf308edaeaf50c2

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.20796 · arxiv_version: 2607.20796v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.20796 · pith_short_12: 4MTHSUDFRUUT · pith_short_16: 4MTHSUDFRUUTG66Z · pith_short_8: 4MTHSUDF

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/4MTHSUDFRUUTG66ZGKNLAHB6XB \
  | 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: e3267950658d29337bd9329ab01c3eb86b39078618d09f978bf308edaeaf50c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e72c088e687d69d078acffcbe369525b638ba8c424610c07114f8fdf76e0f09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.MM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-22T23:51:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "111391fa940d3ecf2c0675db17f92805f6f0f94705bb5cb99c4648465f2a5378"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.20796",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}