Pith Number

pith:X5KUFGS2

pith:2025:X5KUFGS2SMWU5SUXST4AMY5CZV

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Fake Friends and Sponsored Ads: The Risks of Advertising in Conversational Search

Jacob Erickson

arxiv:2506.06447 v1 · 2025-06-06 · cs.HC · cs.CY

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X5KUFGS2SMWU5SUXST4AMY5CZV}

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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	2026-07-05T11:53:04.137310Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf55429a5a932d4eca9794f80663a2cd65c4b217a1f80e87c40e991903514b49

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.06447 · arxiv_version: 2506.06447v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.06447 · pith_short_12: X5KUFGS2SMWU · pith_short_16: X5KUFGS2SMWU5SUX · pith_short_8: X5KUFGS2

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/X5KUFGS2SMWU5SUXST4AMY5CZV \
  | 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: bf55429a5a932d4eca9794f80663a2cd65c4b217a1f80e87c40e991903514b49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94bf951b17df7ebbe498e415dcffce3eececfa6d63ba066e4f75e9dc02080781",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-06T18:09:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bc88f6d05a462efaeb5f851fe716f1a55d2da9e74a756e5129550b5567f789d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.06447",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}