Pith Number

pith:LDC673VL

pith:2026:LDC673VLI4FFVZOBA77P3WVJEQ

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CASPER in the Machine: Insights into Character Variety in LLM-Generated Stories

Abhisheik Sharma, Anneliese Brei, Lu Wang, Nicholas Sanaie, Snigdha Chaturvedi

arxiv:2606.22454 v1 · 2026-06-21 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{LDC673VLI4FFVZOBA77P3WVJEQ}

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First computed	2026-06-23T02:13:38.784354Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58c5efeeab470a5ae5c107fefddaa9243ff70fd01f2a1e7ecf187740a673c1f4

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22454 · arxiv_version: 2606.22454v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22454 · pith_short_12: LDC673VLI4FF · pith_short_16: LDC673VLI4FFVZOB · pith_short_8: LDC673VL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LDC673VLI4FFVZOBA77P3WVJEQ \
  | 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: 58c5efeeab470a5ae5c107fefddaa9243ff70fd01f2a1e7ecf187740a673c1f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c47dd1fa4f8038aca667e97321b567909231f6e159fe07b3c0b6f83f964578e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-21T11:57:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c13ae3f33602fb745287cf32eeb5493ded0482ef9b40cb874b3b86e3a0e37bb1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22454",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}