Pith Number

pith:C6HRNCYH

pith:2026:C6HRNCYHQT55GAZ6YZWHPARUKL

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Synthetic Sources?: Auditing Generative Search Engine Citations for Evidence of AI-Generated Sources

Mowafak Allaham, Nicholas Diakopoulos

arxiv:2605.23684 v1 · 2026-05-22 · cs.IR · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6HRNCYHQT55GAZ6YZWHPARUKL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-25T02:02:26.017066Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

178f168b0784fbd3033ec66c77823452df1d4bd6c4f19c82cfce51fea7e1b21d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23684 · arxiv_version: 2605.23684v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23684 · pith_short_12: C6HRNCYHQT55 · pith_short_16: C6HRNCYHQT55GAZ6 · pith_short_8: C6HRNCYH

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/C6HRNCYHQT55GAZ6YZWHPARUKL \
  | 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: 178f168b0784fbd3033ec66c77823452df1d4bd6c4f19c82cfce51fea7e1b21d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec3782e902bef8af143f651262382ecf090fb893291f2889f8d9de96d8b43775",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-22T14:33:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "afd18063216af36c92fd5fec6bce28d5b04392e7907403a1b772e7ddb0594703"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23684",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}