Pith Number

pith:WTXIURXW

pith:2026:WTXIURXWWASAAF3JHNLGSWOBH7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The AI Fiction Paradox

Katherine Elkins

arxiv:2603.13545 v2 · 2026-03-13 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WTXIURXWWASAAF3JHNLGSWOBH7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-20T00:18:19.378382Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4ee8a46f6b0240017693b566959c13fc5bff9eb260fed8f7b77a5229a2ca036

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.13545 · arxiv_version: 2603.13545v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.13545 · pith_short_12: WTXIURXWWASA · pith_short_16: WTXIURXWWASAAF3J · pith_short_8: WTXIURXW

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/WTXIURXWWASAAF3JHNLGSWOBH7 \
  | 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: b4ee8a46f6b0240017693b566959c13fc5bff9eb260fed8f7b77a5229a2ca036

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "587464f086fad4378a2fd95fdb3f52c5dd2318f28613dc5bf8639441b575126a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-13T19:32:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e69867974ec0b6541786ffda199629267dd86dbd302bf4ef11de74c0379a377"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.13545",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}