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pith:WC5RZM2H

pith:2026:WC5RZM2HR3LPGCAODHOY4L5QUP

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Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies

Adam Gleave, Antonio A. Arechar, David Rand, Gordon Pennycook, Jasper Timm, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Godbout, Kellin Pelrine, Matthew Kowal, Thomas H. Costello

arxiv:2601.05050 v3 · 2026-01-08 · cs.AI · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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First computed	2026-07-17T00:20:42.973027Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0bb1cb3478ed6f3080e19dd8e2fb0a3c7ee7eea482ecb8c736bc31f1ff6139e

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.05050 · arxiv_version: 2601.05050v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.05050 · pith_short_12: WC5RZM2HR3LP · pith_short_16: WC5RZM2HR3LPGCAO · pith_short_8: WC5RZM2H

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WC5RZM2HR3LPGCAODHOY4L5QUP \
  | 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: b0bb1cb3478ed6f3080e19dd8e2fb0a3c7ee7eea482ecb8c736bc31f1ff6139e

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "econ.GN",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-08T15:56:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ef12c38cb30847cfbb4c57519e74c2a3a22bfc5b1e20f452cceb79de1b04c0a"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}