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pith:AS4Z6V2K

pith:2025:AS4Z6V2KFJWD7KRHJJ3ZXCTAJX

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Large Language Models are often politically extreme, usually ideologically inconsistent, and persuasive even in informational contexts

Aaron Kaufman, Hazem Ibrahim, Matteo Varvello, Nouar AlDahoul, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki

arxiv:2505.04171 v1 · 2025-05-07 · cs.CY · cs.CL

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Progressive in Principle, Centrist in Practice: LLM Political Bias Is Instrument-Dependent

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:59:37.927040Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04b99f574a2a6c3faa274a779b8a604dc9e1f26ae52ef99463161dbf7bfe0675

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.04171 · arxiv_version: 2505.04171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.04171 · pith_short_12: AS4Z6V2KFJWD · pith_short_16: AS4Z6V2KFJWD7KRH · pith_short_8: AS4Z6V2K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AS4Z6V2KFJWD7KRHJJ3ZXCTAJX \
  | 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: 04b99f574a2a6c3faa274a779b8a604dc9e1f26ae52ef99463161dbf7bfe0675

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-07T06:53:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca12ab4bb0a960e68f5c1e4849c34e74b0ed0bbf79ccd006b228b2d2fc84315c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.04171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}