Pith Number

pith:LJ4V374Z

pith:2025:LJ4V374Z5YIUENRWM6CAHVDVRF

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Responsible Data Stewardship: Generative AI and the Digital Waste Problem

Vanessa Utz

arxiv:2505.21720 v1 · 2025-05-27 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LJ4V374Z5YIUENRWM6CAHVDVRF}

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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	2026-07-05T11:11:02.480398Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a795dff99ee11423636678403d4758951c278e347b53d225af18b2ffb3712ec

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.21720 · arxiv_version: 2505.21720v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.21720 · pith_short_12: LJ4V374Z5YIU · pith_short_16: LJ4V374Z5YIUENRW · pith_short_8: LJ4V374Z

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/LJ4V374Z5YIUENRWM6CAHVDVRF \
  | 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: 5a795dff99ee11423636678403d4758951c278e347b53d225af18b2ffb3712ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38038e784456941f36f6da500db2aa34487b27f45f6322afea65bb026f546cf5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-27T20:07:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4fbccf9941a94ddbe3aefa30d5e587a6dcabcb284d03256af306cd6dc9cde05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.21720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}