Pith Number

pith:HHG6XURG

pith:2025:HHG6XURGK7I2C5WS5TZETBYN5D

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Do small language models generate realistic variable-quality fake news headlines?

Austin McCutcheon, Chris Brogly

arxiv:2509.00680 v1 · 2025-08-31 · cs.CL · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HHG6XURGK7I2C5WS5TZETBYN5D}

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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	2026-07-05T12:02:21.032918Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39cdebd22657d1a176d2ecf249870de8fbc7d21836a0de37171dc1ae65b09443

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.00680 · arxiv_version: 2509.00680v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.00680 · pith_short_12: HHG6XURGK7I2 · pith_short_16: HHG6XURGK7I2C5WS · pith_short_8: HHG6XURG

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/HHG6XURGK7I2C5WS5TZETBYN5D \
  | 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: 39cdebd22657d1a176d2ecf249870de8fbc7d21836a0de37171dc1ae65b09443

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a5a28a304d9f77a62519d8d0d4e59e1ec3be8b09e11c8df315ccd022259655f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-31T03:24:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4133aa31c314e4c7543b1ce98d3fa8e415d67efd1999b14da810bcef2f954c6d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.00680",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}