Pith Number

pith:ZAPQCCC4

pith:2023:ZAPQCCC4K4MYYIKLULIDQFDIAJ

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Why Are Conversational Assistants Still Black Boxes? The Case For Transparency

Jose Such, Luc Moreau, Trung Dong Huynh, William Seymour

arxiv:2306.05218 v1 · 2023-06-08 · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZAPQCCC4K4MYYIKLULIDQFDIAJ}

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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	2026-07-05T06:18:53.775726Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c81f01085c57198c214ba2d0381468026c5437340af74af0f808f6d13f64eb8a

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.05218 · arxiv_version: 2306.05218v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.05218 · pith_short_12: ZAPQCCC4K4MY · pith_short_16: ZAPQCCC4K4MYYIKL · pith_short_8: ZAPQCCC4

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/ZAPQCCC4K4MYYIKLULIDQFDIAJ \
  | 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: c81f01085c57198c214ba2d0381468026c5437340af74af0f808f6d13f64eb8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f04e21d94f9ef14207a894483babd560cf979d8f4ec5667c6992e8a58a61399f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-08T14:17:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47b0e0b7ec471ba1183880547cac0747f41eb7d14bcfc23e75486863adbccb24"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.05218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}