Pith Number

pith:JMAKLIQR

pith:2026:JMAKLIQRSBNVGWFN6ZGTGOHNED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why AI Slop Matters, but Not Like That

Kimon Kieslich, Marijn Sax, Sachita Nishal

arxiv:2606.12285 v1 · 2026-06-10 · cs.CY

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JMAKLIQRSBNVGWFN6ZGTGOHNED}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-11T01:10:59.635028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b00a5a211905b5358adf64d3338ed20f2b14230335bff45de0c5a852bf5f60f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12285 · arxiv_version: 2606.12285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12285 · pith_short_12: JMAKLIQRSBNV · pith_short_16: JMAKLIQRSBNVGWFN · pith_short_8: JMAKLIQR

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/JMAKLIQRSBNVGWFN6ZGTGOHNED \
  | 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: 4b00a5a211905b5358adf64d3338ed20f2b14230335bff45de0c5a852bf5f60f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ea6bf50ce59bfcdea8bfd20c79053ade46efaba1fc0b31ddb6ee6ff6104d9c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-10T16:21:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8fd1c308c5e0385fae818b1541a1b02f1c8070f1ba7de26bb20373c982eab306"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}