Pith Number

pith:TGUGL3NW

pith:2026:TGUGL3NWJLULDH5OOPC4KM4RQ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Forensics to Ecosystems: Rethinking Watermarks for Generative AI Oversight

Daniel Susser, Gili Vidan, John Thickstun

arxiv:2608.07337 v1 · 2026-08-07 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TGUGL3NWJLULDH5OOPC4KM4RQ4}

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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	2026-08-10T01:15:03.905807Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

99a865edb64ae8b19fae73c5c533918709a66ba97c25591cd41ee27c9e553d52

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07337 · arxiv_version: 2608.07337v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07337 · pith_short_12: TGUGL3NWJLUL · pith_short_16: TGUGL3NWJLULDH5O · pith_short_8: TGUGL3NW

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/TGUGL3NWJLULDH5OOPC4KM4RQ4 \
  | 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: 99a865edb64ae8b19fae73c5c533918709a66ba97c25591cd41ee27c9e553d52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c0378b8042f6a59345cbd1c90365a39e77dbc356fbdb33158d2522e69c0628a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T15:32:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5da70d7dbc29994b267d14831f54076aab921f2c56ec838ff47442a4242fd50e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07337",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}