Pith Number

pith:GQEUINZ6

pith:2026:GQEUINZ6XCPKOTPGGRQVBRIZLT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Copyright Is the Headline; Capability Is the Blind Spot: AI Technology in the Book-Publishing Trade Press, November 2025--August 2026

Fred Zimmerman

arxiv:2608.00964 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GQEUINZ6XCPKOTPGGRQVBRIZLT}

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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	2026-08-04T01:55:58.135471Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

340944373eb89ea74de6346150c5195cda80cb94f9322779fd2c54cb1c97feb5

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00964 · arxiv_version: 2608.00964v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00964 · pith_short_12: GQEUINZ6XCPK · pith_short_16: GQEUINZ6XCPKOTPG · pith_short_8: GQEUINZ6

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/GQEUINZ6XCPKOTPGGRQVBRIZLT \
  | 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: 340944373eb89ea74de6346150c5195cda80cb94f9322779fd2c54cb1c97feb5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4dbc65dc1db7d458f89a127562c96a6f342b9ba1e0b5e33923490b856eb52294",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T03:26:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3fe3b360e1f1a1ce45454ea960e9f7d7d05b6b20b13ff50f67c9912da05b7651"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00964",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}