Pith Number

pith:BN4TXSP2

pith:2026:BN4TXSP2R4FEQLHVSHW2SXQD5A

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Designing Conversations with the Dead: How People Engage with Generative Ghosts

Anthony T. Pinter, Daniel Sullivan, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Jack Manning, Jed R. Brubaker

arxiv:2605.21390 v1 · 2026-05-20 · cs.HC · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BN4TXSP2R4FEQLHVSHW2SXQD5A}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-21T02:05:32.404619Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b793bc9fa8f0a482cf591eda95e03e834cf58f6244fd3d54f055428fba62b02

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21390 · arxiv_version: 2605.21390v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21390 · pith_short_12: BN4TXSP2R4FE · pith_short_16: BN4TXSP2R4FEQLHV · pith_short_8: BN4TXSP2

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/BN4TXSP2R4FEQLHVSHW2SXQD5A \
  | 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: 0b793bc9fa8f0a482cf591eda95e03e834cf58f6244fd3d54f055428fba62b02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9d25b878f2c18d02704cbe6cd76c9344065f661de42141ec782cd906d24e303",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T16:45:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "303e03e6532b2f19ec872af154cb4666e6ab9b15463e3d3c3004ce2a62910612"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.21390",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}