Pith Number

pith:WLQP2P4T

pith:2025:WLQP2P4TH5QF5DE4ITU3YJMHUG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An LLM's Apology: Outsourcing Awkwardness in the Age of AI

Anna Soligo, Twm Stone

arxiv:2506.13685 v1 · 2025-06-16 · cs.CY · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WLQP2P4TH5QF5DE4ITU3YJMHUG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T11:22:24.897028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2e0fd3f933f605e8c9c44e9bc2587a1bfb3ea3f40d3522cae37bf7ddfe9f97f

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.13685 · arxiv_version: 2506.13685v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.13685 · pith_short_12: WLQP2P4TH5QF · pith_short_16: WLQP2P4TH5QF5DE4 · pith_short_8: WLQP2P4T

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/WLQP2P4TH5QF5DE4ITU3YJMHUG \
  | 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: b2e0fd3f933f605e8c9c44e9bc2587a1bfb3ea3f40d3522cae37bf7ddfe9f97f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c9ab43fa67cdb03f208032a2c990bdbf7f8f6ed15f3f4d167abf846d5de24c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-16T16:46:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b7512f6f597f0a1f28e73fe3ab7465b965d1285c1276383e7d16639bc9e4e04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.13685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}