Pith Number

pith:VKVXZDVI

pith:2026:VKVXZDVICE56NKVDBN2R6ZMLLX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Position: Generative Engine Optimization Creates Underexamined Risks, Governance Must Target Concentration, Disclosure, and Academic Blind Spots

Hanqing Guo, Haohan Yuan, HaoPeng Zhang, Nan Zhang, Xun Chen, Yizhu Wen

arxiv:2606.12439 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKVXZDVICE56NKVDBN2R6ZMLLX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-06-12T00:07:50.821092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aaab7c8ea8113be6aaa30b751f658b5dc26e3b416071bd7753518847bd2bdefc

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12439 · arxiv_version: 2606.12439v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12439 · pith_short_12: VKVXZDVICE56 · pith_short_16: VKVXZDVICE56NKVD · pith_short_8: VKVXZDVI

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/VKVXZDVICE56NKVDBN2R6ZMLLX \
  | 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: aaab7c8ea8113be6aaa30b751f658b5dc26e3b416071bd7753518847bd2bdefc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0194cc77c91712717f58564cf587db986775f63fd78e940f7db1f480079aeab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T02:02:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da1b5640f1a4a45a2ab9cda92a7c70336e274362e1c388f5c0b1549afbee3838"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12439",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}