Pith Number

pith:J7IFCK6S

pith:2026:J7IFCK6S754IWMDDDLBB7BAH7S

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Reducing belief in conspiracy theories as they unfold using large language models

David Rand, Gordon Pennycook, Michael Nicholas Stagnaro, Nathaniel Rabb, Thomas H. Costello

arxiv:2608.06151 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.HC · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J7IFCK6S754IWMDDDLBB7BAH7S}

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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	2026-08-07T01:40:49.639379Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fd0512bd2ff788b30631ac21f8407fc99739d5dbbef9d04dad60ac24276c20e

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06151 · arxiv_version: 2608.06151v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06151 · pith_short_12: J7IFCK6S754I · pith_short_16: J7IFCK6S754IWMDD · pith_short_8: J7IFCK6S

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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/J7IFCK6S754IWMDDDLBB7BAH7S \
  | 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: 4fd0512bd2ff788b30631ac21f8407fc99739d5dbbef9d04dad60ac24276c20e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07b54fd6fe53e311e3b141f082eb3665e28522ba0a2899224e15800e7948f8f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T15:18:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a81581d5951cbcc7db80ab8618a0573f945f0c555666da0ed4109a510a2a996"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06151",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}