The crediting structure of AI research consistently advantages institutions over the contexts that actually produce discovery. When 4chan users found that narrated reasoning improved GPT-3 outputs in 2020, they had no mechanism to publish, no affiliation to attach, and no incentive beyond the game they were playing [1]. Google's 2022 paper formalized the same observation into a citable artifact — and citability, in this industry, is equivalent to ownership. Every subsequent paper, product roadmap, and investor deck that traces chain-of-thought to Wei et al. is not wrong about the paper;…