Pith Number

pith:FYZIKTKY

pith:2026:FYZIKTKYE3YTHO2R2NDMEO4BNT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Directional Hallucinations: Ideological Drift in News-Grounded LLM Question Answering

Chendi Wang, Jieying Chen, Liam Cunningham, Tom Yishay

arxiv:2607.20487 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FYZIKTKYE3YTHO2R2NDMEO4BNT}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-24T00:23:18.349068Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2e32854d5826f133bb51d346c23b816cced5941e1c7b9316796b1baed885315c

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.20487 · arxiv_version: 2607.20487v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.20487 · pith_short_12: FYZIKTKYE3YT · pith_short_16: FYZIKTKYE3YTHO2R · pith_short_8: FYZIKTKY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FYZIKTKYE3YTHO2R2NDMEO4BNT \
  | 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: 2e32854d5826f133bb51d346c23b816cced5941e1c7b9316796b1baed885315c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78a26a80534b4fdfe1b165375a349c764b41b7c51483eaea408abb9d5abfdf51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T16:39:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06b7ad306412de47cc57df77d3fb8c02753d93bba24efb326a52cb1d80c51834"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.20487",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}