Pith Number

pith:LDFDY2UA

pith:2025:LDFDY2UAR6EPWJ3KVUNXKPGP5M

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"I made this (sort of)": Negotiating authorship, confronting fraudulence, and exploring new musical spaces with prompt-based AI music generation

Bob L. T. Sturm

arxiv:2507.23365 v1 · 2025-07-31 · cs.SD · cs.AI · eess.AS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LDFDY2UAR6EPWJ3KVUNXKPGP5M}

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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	2026-07-05T11:46:10.828065Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58ca3c6a808f88fb276aad1b753ccfeb3c90171a2ecfdffd5c8004b0585761ea

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.23365 · arxiv_version: 2507.23365v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.23365 · pith_short_12: LDFDY2UAR6EP · pith_short_16: LDFDY2UAR6EPWJ3K · pith_short_8: LDFDY2UA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LDFDY2UAR6EPWJ3KVUNXKPGP5M \
  | 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: 58ca3c6a808f88fb276aad1b753ccfeb3c90171a2ecfdffd5c8004b0585761ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79478bb6bc2f2e6e7cd52636b6bd87f3c763a8796561a2345805cd627a5e9ac2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "eess.AS"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SD",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-31T09:25:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67dad593a1ef006630f0a7869e213523e73571a1749c930fd24fef2bf38cf712"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.23365",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}