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pith:SOXYK4SS

pith:2025:SOXYK4SSJ3OVQRK5HZDVYFEEFH

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TRUTH DECAY: Quantifying Multi-Turn Sycophancy in Language Models

Aarav Jain, Aslihan Akalin, Joshua Liu, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien, Soham Takuri, Srihan Vege, Vasu Sharma

arxiv:2503.11656 v1 · 2025-02-04 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:31:57.383603Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

93af8572524edd58455d3e475c148429f48e66f1dbcf24643274a67e6bbba4a4

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arxiv: 2503.11656 · arxiv_version: 2503.11656v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.11656 · pith_short_12: SOXYK4SSJ3OV · pith_short_16: SOXYK4SSJ3OVQRK5 · pith_short_8: SOXYK4SS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SOXYK4SSJ3OVQRK5HZDVYFEEFH \
  | 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: 93af8572524edd58455d3e475c148429f48e66f1dbcf24643274a67e6bbba4a4

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-04T06:56:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5706602961198a08ad6eef1184e00d1c1d0e3a41674d0a3688f9bbc707f86de9"
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