Pith Number

pith:RNZ5PLX5

pith:2025:RNZ5PLX5WIIW6JCZ3AAE2UIWUK

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Delving into: the quantification of Ai-generated content on the internet (synthetic data)

Dirk HR Spennemann

arxiv:2504.08755 v1 · 2025-03-29 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RNZ5PLX5WIIW6JCZ3AAE2UIWUK}

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4 Citations open

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:47:58.611438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b73d7aefdb2116f2459d8004d5116a2985f6ebc65e87e719f6e7748aca07393

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.08755 · arxiv_version: 2504.08755v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.08755 · pith_short_12: RNZ5PLX5WIIW · pith_short_16: RNZ5PLX5WIIW6JCZ · pith_short_8: RNZ5PLX5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RNZ5PLX5WIIW6JCZ3AAE2UIWUK \
  | 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: 8b73d7aefdb2116f2459d8004d5116a2985f6ebc65e87e719f6e7748aca07393

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca0b16a58a0747c9d54829463e1f158c74ad2cc05d551ea03bbb7216b48dd958",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-29T03:06:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e2820bde2430a484cbb8bbebe5734ce021b44b13e6fd372438e30f286a23228"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.08755",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}