Pith Number

pith:R7JKAI4U

pith:2026:R7JKAI4UTDUG7OV3XYALBCKZUS

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Are LLMs becoming similarly creative? Evidence from three years of models

Emily Wenger, Eva Aggarwal, Josiah Crossman, Nirav Patel

arxiv:2608.19437 v1 · 2026-08-19 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R7JKAI4UTDUG7OV3XYALBCKZUS}

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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	2026-08-21T00:20:48.943341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8fd2a0239498e86fbabbbe00b08959a495c564cdd1fc62c4e5b37c9eb947c5de

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.19437 · arxiv_version: 2608.19437v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.19437 · pith_short_12: R7JKAI4UTDUG · pith_short_16: R7JKAI4UTDUG7OV3 · pith_short_8: R7JKAI4U

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/R7JKAI4UTDUG7OV3XYALBCKZUS \
  | 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: 8fd2a0239498e86fbabbbe00b08959a495c564cdd1fc62c4e5b37c9eb947c5de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df96fb3800badc3348a8a85dcebaa785947cada56a0a8f38cd192967a9e4e2d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-19T20:44:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec0bcc0131877e9a67619e39ee7aa9d6e98058d858ff2cd906decdfe44df5f91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.19437",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}