Pith Number

pith:L3Z4VAZD

pith:2025:L3Z4VAZD4N72PQF5SAV77UQRVM

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Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts

Mosh Levy, Yoav Goldberg, Zohar Elyoseph

arxiv:2508.16599 v2 · 2025-08-09 · cs.HC · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L3Z4VAZD4N72PQF5SAV77UQRVM}

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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	2026-07-05T12:00:51.894172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ef3ca8323e37fa7c0bd902bffd211ab2532fb2dacca4a3b0297d40ca3ed17c4

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.16599 · arxiv_version: 2508.16599v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.16599 · pith_short_12: L3Z4VAZD4N72 · pith_short_16: L3Z4VAZD4N72PQF5 · pith_short_8: L3Z4VAZD

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/L3Z4VAZD4N72PQF5SAV77UQRVM \
  | 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: 5ef3ca8323e37fa7c0bd902bffd211ab2532fb2dacca4a3b0297d40ca3ed17c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e25f5c638aeaf06f635f17bfbe7f085aeacd927d7bacfb61a2b23d4ed26718cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-09T16:29:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34ec74da7a78afbd218e14df666b41dce3dec73fd178defc3022f885c2e594bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.16599",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}