Pith Number

pith:A6C3UNH7

pith:2026:A6C3UNH7ZDWVQKKVKLLUXVTXBG

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How Much Can We Trust LLM Search Agents? Measuring Endorsement Vulnerability to Web Content Manipulation

Dandan Guo, Firas Laakom, J\"urgen Schmidhuber, Yimeng Chen, Yu Li, Zhe Ren

arxiv:2606.16821 v2 · 2026-06-15 · cs.CL · cs.CR · cs.CY · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A6C3UNH7ZDWVQKKVKLLUXVTXBG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-24T01:15:26.094555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0785ba34ffc8ed58295552d74bd677099512c14894aa8628e690a948e8fed0fa

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.16821 · arxiv_version: 2606.16821v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.16821 · pith_short_12: A6C3UNH7ZDWV · pith_short_16: A6C3UNH7ZDWVQKKV · pith_short_8: A6C3UNH7

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/A6C3UNH7ZDWVQKKVKLLUXVTXBG \
  | 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: 0785ba34ffc8ed58295552d74bd677099512c14894aa8628e690a948e8fed0fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f3b5724f7a85a503b292a08f66294de13b0f3e3ca6c1f5c4a2811c48f66a7ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-15T15:05:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c251c2835173aeaa9b34497110371886b49e9091d213578421eb1b529ecb1a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.16821",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}