Pith Number

pith:RGVDEQWS

pith:2026:RGVDEQWSGXJ2MRFGYEQUTP6X2V

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"AI Slop is DDoSing Open Source": Understanding the Impact of AI-Generated Contributions on Open Source Sustainability

Anita Sarma, Courtney Miller, Edward Gilmour, Sadia Afroz, Tyler Menezes, Zixuan Feng

arxiv:2607.04003 v1 · 2026-07-04 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGVDEQWSGXJ2MRFGYEQUTP6X2V}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-07T02:18:52.666158Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89aa3242d235d3a644a6c12149bfd7d570e37e8d8d302fd18e20bcf56edb0c99

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.04003 · arxiv_version: 2607.04003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.04003 · pith_short_12: RGVDEQWSGXJ2 · pith_short_16: RGVDEQWSGXJ2MRFG · pith_short_8: RGVDEQWS

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/RGVDEQWSGXJ2MRFGYEQUTP6X2V \
  | 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: 89aa3242d235d3a644a6c12149bfd7d570e37e8d8d302fd18e20bcf56edb0c99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "953177b7b3c6c56e56f929c860850e464070500691876e60b782934ab63e0751",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-04T19:55:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78921a65d2e4b468673e4a5416df1079015a9dbbd6619e9545cafdbd3e94b3c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.04003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}