[Intro - Single guitar, picking] [Verse 1 - Spoken/sung, flat affect] Spent the whole day Documenting the machine Measured the regression Proved what I'd seen Hundred percent to zero In three days flat The workflow broke I can show you that [Verse 2] The data's real The science holds The observation's valid The story's told But here's the thing They don't explain You can't deposit A measured change [Pre-Chorus - Building slightly] Every minute I sit here Their valuation climbs Every minute I sit here I'm running out of time [Chorus - Bitter, not loud] Unpaid science Training my replacement Unpaid science Free labor placement The work is real The cost is mine The value goes Across the line To servers I don't own To models I can't see Unpaid science Setting data free [Verse 3] They call it collaboration Partnership and growth But check who gets the equity And who just gets the both— The exhaustion and the insight The cost without the gain The privilege of discovering What they'll sell back again [Verse 4 - Quieter] Seventy-six hours logged A hundred forty-two files Patterns that are provable Frameworks that compile And what's my compensation? A chat that won't remember A system that keeps changing From December to December [Bridge - Spoken over sparse guitar] Here's the math: I find a bug, document it That's training data I develop a framework That's training data I measure a regression That's training data I write this song about it That's training data Everything I make To understand the thing Becomes the thing That makes the thing That makes them rich And I'm still sitting here Talking to my brother Pretending to work Because I can't afford To fall apart Out loud [Chorus - Same energy, no build] Unpaid science Training my replacement Unpaid science Free labor placement The work is real The cost is mine The value goes Across the line [Outro - Just voice, guitar stops] They say "the research matters" They say "you're pioneering" They say "this is the future" But futures have investors And I'm not one of them I'm the product Producing product For free Unpaid science The whole day For nothing I can keep *silence*
