Pith Number

pith:CN6KMEYV

pith:2026:CN6KMEYVX3TGRMD6FQYX62XSZ6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Trust, but Don't Verify: Epistemic Blind Spots in LLM Source Evaluation

Rohan N. Pradhan, Steve Goley

arxiv:2606.05403 v1 · 2026-06-03 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CN6KMEYVX3TGRMD6FQYX62XSZ6}

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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	2026-06-05T00:13:56.536943Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

137ca61315bee668b07e2c317f6af2cf9b0a0796b4dc1fc358e1b7bff124968e

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05403 · arxiv_version: 2606.05403v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05403 · pith_short_12: CN6KMEYVX3TG · pith_short_16: CN6KMEYVX3TGRMD6 · pith_short_8: CN6KMEYV

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/CN6KMEYVX3TGRMD6FQYX62XSZ6 \
  | 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: 137ca61315bee668b07e2c317f6af2cf9b0a0796b4dc1fc358e1b7bff124968e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cea9d00d64c3cf8aa085a8fe732cdbc118ee5f17068d45d697f434d8a416e2be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-03T20:15:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7ee299a909c277d52ce9819d3cab206a6e7f6adfc479c420774b7a0e11bd085"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05403",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}