Pith Number

pith:MHSXLJKW

pith:2026:MHSXLJKWRLB4PGIZFKLU7OQX4M

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Material for Thought: Generative AI as an Active Creative Medium

Hugo Andersson, Niklas Elmqvist

arxiv:2605.19832 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MHSXLJKWRLB4PGIZFKLU7OQX4M}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-20T01:06:16.767960Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61e575a5568ac3c799192a974fba17e30b3997d97ef78b979d2c4292f958ed1d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19832 · arxiv_version: 2605.19832v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19832 · pith_short_12: MHSXLJKWRLB4 · pith_short_16: MHSXLJKWRLB4PGIZ · pith_short_8: MHSXLJKW

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/MHSXLJKWRLB4PGIZFKLU7OQX4M \
  | 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: 61e575a5568ac3c799192a974fba17e30b3997d97ef78b979d2c4292f958ed1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0dae8e4d8b2c58f976441f4cae3f789d527249a1bdfa2e3e01ac434956ffdbd4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T13:25:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14227ee66316c433ff29e4249e099254ff1d6ea6bbeaecdda0b99093da16ff32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19832",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}