I dislike when people like RMS get semantic and gatekeep words like "free software", but this is the end product of a world without gatekeepers. People just use words in a way that's convenient to them.
We often see semantic drift over a long period of time. It's just that the overarching topic of AI is being played significantly faster than what we would normally have observed in other fields.
Or maybe some gatekeeping is actually good, and we just have to use more of our braincells and figure if a particular gatekeeper is good or bad. It's a good thing that being a pilot for an airline is gatekept to qualified pilots that know how to fly a plane. It's a bad thing that I need a hair cutting license to buy hair dye to dye my own hair at home.
