Pith Number

pith:GSXTGDGW

pith:2026:GSXTGDGWKHQPT7E2W64CMYD5WX

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Embodied Explainability and Ontological Obstacles: Why We Struggle to Explain the Answers of Large Language Models (LLMs)

Jesse Hoey, Kate Larson, Mark Hancock, Marvin Pafla

arxiv:2606.23840 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.HC

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\pithnumber{GSXTGDGWKHQPT7E2W64CMYD5WX}

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First computed	2026-06-24T00:14:28.352151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34af330cd651e0f9fc9ab7b826607db5d5bde623f75c6b56b1179185b1b0ab24

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.23840 · arxiv_version: 2606.23840v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.23840 · pith_short_12: GSXTGDGWKHQP · pith_short_16: GSXTGDGWKHQPT7E2 · pith_short_8: GSXTGDGW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GSXTGDGWKHQPT7E2W64CMYD5WX \
  | 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: 34af330cd651e0f9fc9ab7b826607db5d5bde623f75c6b56b1179185b1b0ab24

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ba0176d09587613b9b479d59199771092661043854988a04224e82938c6de4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T18:22:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "021aa6d7cbc243b6dad218bff1212d6add3ac000fae869b942aace4a09ebe890"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.23840",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}