Pith Number

pith:OVKLI6OA

pith:2026:OVKLI6OA6K2QBKY74CJEOLXOL5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Flaws in the LLM Automation Narrative

George Perrett, Javae Elliott, Jennifer Hill, Marc Scott

arxiv:2606.11166 v1 · 2026-06-09 · stat.OT · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OVKLI6OA6K2QBKY74CJEOLXOL5}

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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	2026-06-10T01:11:14.878376Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7554b479c0f2b500ab1fe092472eee5f504c6fbb7e6c6ef402dcacb159b8580d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.11166 · arxiv_version: 2606.11166v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.11166 · pith_short_12: OVKLI6OA6K2Q · pith_short_16: OVKLI6OA6K2QBKY7 · pith_short_8: OVKLI6OA

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/OVKLI6OA6K2QBKY74CJEOLXOL5 \
  | 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: 7554b479c0f2b500ab1fe092472eee5f504c6fbb7e6c6ef402dcacb159b8580d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7013c1fc2fe6075708d178c9010e34fafc9e892b782ba38254f94ad4f9e21db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-09T17:46:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9c494b2af3f4ae3f3f1dac1f54fd9bab078fcad07dd424c88c0513ca9e58f59"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.11166",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}