Pith Number

pith:F6FWTXZ7

pith:2026:F6FWTXZ7SLTNY6UL2WPDLJHDMM

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Quality Without Usefulness: LLM-Generated XAI Narratives as Trust Heuristics Rather Than Decision Aids

Alexander Silbersdorff, Benjamin Saefken, Christoph Weisser, Fabian Lukassen, Jan Herrmann, Thomas Kneib

arxiv:2605.26770 v1 · 2026-05-26 · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{F6FWTXZ7SLTNY6UL2WPDLJHDMM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-27T01:06:11.767026Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f8b69df3f92e6dc7a8bd59e35a4e36333ff07b651d8c42ba19bd096b3acd016

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.26770 · arxiv_version: 2605.26770v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26770 · pith_short_12: F6FWTXZ7SLTN · pith_short_16: F6FWTXZ7SLTNY6UL · pith_short_8: F6FWTXZ7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F6FWTXZ7SLTNY6UL2WPDLJHDMM \
  | 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: 2f8b69df3f92e6dc7a8bd59e35a4e36333ff07b651d8c42ba19bd096b3acd016

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1eac78cf4e5bc50c39f0e5ba26bdc6f3721c01d7a82115ff488496812a36add6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-26T09:39:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66cd1bdf5b99ee138905f74d6d6db9a01ca0f9eb954b0d8683cbc558e2a8847a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.26770",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}