Pith Number

pith:5P4ZJZAE

pith:2025:5P4ZJZAEMORRQH6GW3QE4L7CCQ

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BadScientist: Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers?

Basel Alomair, Fengqing Jiang, Luyao Niu, Radha Poovendran, Yichen Feng, Yuetai Li

arxiv:2510.18003 v2 · 2025-10-20 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5P4ZJZAEMORRQH6GW3QE4L7CCQ}

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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	2026-06-19T16:09:51.745064Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebf994e40463a3181fc6b6e04e2fe2140b584cf48e34396ed393eee4f839c18c

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.18003 · arxiv_version: 2510.18003v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.18003 · pith_short_12: 5P4ZJZAEMORR · pith_short_16: 5P4ZJZAEMORRQH6G · pith_short_8: 5P4ZJZAE

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/5P4ZJZAEMORRQH6GW3QE4L7CCQ \
  | 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: ebf994e40463a3181fc6b6e04e2fe2140b584cf48e34396ed393eee4f839c18c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e94cf6ae91849562f6ec2cd32e18d8fd29f766da81bcfe9500dde03c9498add3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-20T18:37:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3beda850e61d5fa9de3869da0c217a2a2dcd42b2343cdd1904f2202155482440"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2510.18003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}