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pith:2025:ZG3W2WIVLKO7MXVRV5BPJ6LHMR

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Do Large Language Models Exhibit Spontaneous Rational Deception?

Benjamin K. Bergen, Samuel M. Taylor

arxiv:2504.00285 v1 · 2025-03-31 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:42:23.659767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

c9b76d59155a9df65eb1af42f4f9676455d11b167c47f39ed9f5c307f106fcfe

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arxiv: 2504.00285 · arxiv_version: 2504.00285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.00285 · pith_short_12: ZG3W2WIVLKO7 · pith_short_16: ZG3W2WIVLKO7MXVR · pith_short_8: ZG3W2WIV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZG3W2WIVLKO7MXVRV5BPJ6LHMR \
  | 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: c9b76d59155a9df65eb1af42f4f9676455d11b167c47f39ed9f5c307f106fcfe

Canonical record JSON

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