Pith Number

pith:Z7GQG3GY

pith:2026:Z7GQG3GYCMZ4CCWH42EAH6WSL5

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Phantom Evidence: How and Why Generative AI Manufactures False Positives in Science

Ken Shirakawa, Yukiyasu Kamitani

arxiv:2607.25991 v1 · 2026-07-28 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z7GQG3GYCMZ4CCWH42EAH6WSL5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-29T01:26:17.866067Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfcd036cd81333c10ac7e68803fad25f5e695425afe93b10a90f86a4c2f859a0

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.25991 · arxiv_version: 2607.25991v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.25991 · pith_short_12: Z7GQG3GYCMZ4 · pith_short_16: Z7GQG3GYCMZ4CCWH · pith_short_8: Z7GQG3GY

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/Z7GQG3GYCMZ4CCWH42EAH6WSL5 \
  | 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: cfcd036cd81333c10ac7e68803fad25f5e695425afe93b10a90f86a4c2f859a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e2be8a6ee1bc61f17331e83bbfda717cb1c6c87e9b2eb9b5ee6875fec1161a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-28T17:07:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45c100e56a2ea53f8e6b598b9ed07d5ce592fb08c435122a9a491a03a27d800d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.25991",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}