Pith Number

pith:5QZD3YWX

pith:2025:5QZD3YWXYPZGDNCPQC4Y32WNNV

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Just Asking Questions: Doing Our Own Research on Conspiratorial Ideation by Generative AI Chatbots

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Katherine M. FitzGerald, Michelle Riedlinger, Stephen Harrington, Timothy Graham

arxiv:2511.15732 v1 · 2025-11-18 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5QZD3YWXYPZGDNCPQC4Y32WNNV}

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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	2026-05-26T02:03:59.844747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec323de2d7c3f261b44f80b98deacd6d78701b8059faa5efbe3bd10b8857a688

Aliases

arxiv: 2511.15732 · arxiv_version: 2511.15732v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.15732 · pith_short_12: 5QZD3YWXYPZG · pith_short_16: 5QZD3YWXYPZGDNCP · pith_short_8: 5QZD3YWX

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/5QZD3YWXYPZGDNCPQC4Y32WNNV \
  | 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: ec323de2d7c3f261b44f80b98deacd6d78701b8059faa5efbe3bd10b8857a688

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "465bf9b2e2d4dcb7f2fe47af13d5d18f975a3086ca2d4ff10d34b844d96e6cd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-11-18T01:56:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39f31b5de24316fcfb8e91f9aafa2b45349e3f725903aff95d70b64b7ab3d9c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2511.15732",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}