Pith Number

pith:XWXF2MK2

pith:2026:XWXF2MK2L2V7BVXMVBVCG43UWB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Playing Devil's Advocate: Off-the-Shelf Persona Vectors Rival Targeted Steering for Sycophancy

Ishaan Kelkar, Madhur Panwar, Maheep Chaudhary, Nebras Alam, Vasu Sharma, Vikram Kakaria

arxiv:2605.21006 v1 · 2026-05-20 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XWXF2MK2L2V7BVXMVBVCG43UWB}

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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	2026-05-21T01:05:31.997228Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bdae5d315a5eabf0d6eca86a237374b048a0af19989895c34e4e94fda65484c0

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21006 · arxiv_version: 2605.21006v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21006 · pith_short_12: XWXF2MK2L2V7 · pith_short_16: XWXF2MK2L2V7BVXM · pith_short_8: XWXF2MK2

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/XWXF2MK2L2V7BVXMVBVCG43UWB \
  | 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: bdae5d315a5eabf0d6eca86a237374b048a0af19989895c34e4e94fda65484c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "627a611ae08ac9d28eb54424d01db7967b2fe83cb55e4ece0863da270c0e0d1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T10:43:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b02046cce0d121366f204a85355fcb59644ad42a1bb66a115ddae54af837dcb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.21006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}