Pith Number

pith:PBDTHKSD

pith:2026:PBDTHKSDQUSVJCCBUJHZAIB4FI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Designed by Journalists, but Is It for Readers? Rethinking AI Disclosures and Transparency in News

Pooja Prajod

arxiv:2606.11116 v1 · 2026-06-09 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBDTHKSDQUSVJCCBUJHZAIB4FI}

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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	2026-06-10T01:11:11.875440Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

784733aa438525548841a24f90203c2a0cc54f2f6c3866bed4ab9328677f4ab9

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.11116 · arxiv_version: 2606.11116v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.11116 · pith_short_12: PBDTHKSDQUSV · pith_short_16: PBDTHKSDQUSVJCCB · pith_short_8: PBDTHKSD

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/PBDTHKSDQUSVJCCBUJHZAIB4FI \
  | 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: 784733aa438525548841a24f90203c2a0cc54f2f6c3866bed4ab9328677f4ab9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d38f7c7f15146359bd0bc8c56315005dc12f44487cb68083b2e9cda3a37f3ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-09T17:13:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19cc4576074045bc40edc217df9ae358ef4240667df1f8a75cf0a80f54b2152a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.11116",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}