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pith:THHFT3ZE

pith:2024:THHFT3ZERI2TJKDXDWGYT27DYU

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Search Engines in an AI Era: The False Promise of Factual and Verifiable Source-Cited Responses

Chien-Sheng Wu, Philippe Laban, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Yilun Zhou, Yixin Mao

arxiv:2410.22349 v1 · 2024-10-15 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CY · cs.HC

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:28:15.169892Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

99ce59ef248a3534a8771d8d89ebe3c535745ac5c47688a0c87394db096cf19a

Aliases

arxiv: 2410.22349 · arxiv_version: 2410.22349v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.22349 · pith_short_12: THHFT3ZERI2T · pith_short_16: THHFT3ZERI2TJKDX · pith_short_8: THHFT3ZE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/THHFT3ZERI2TJKDXDWGYT27DYU \
  | 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: 99ce59ef248a3534a8771d8d89ebe3c535745ac5c47688a0c87394db096cf19a

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2024-10-15T00:50:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a17ced9acd9704b1f7848fb2f00178c11b3c00c3b2c73af7546227299ae7981"
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