The knowledge was freely available for the past few decades, way before LLMs - ergo democratised. The skill was freely available to learn - ergo democratised.
By your logic,
- cooking is a skill that is not democratised (despite the fact that you can do it everyday).
- A person who doesn't take time to learn cooking from cookbooks or youtube tutorials is somehow "lacking access" and in an undemocratic position
- An experienced chef is monopolising his mastery of cooking skills bc they dedicated time to learning them
- a robot that manufactures food is "democratising cooking skills"
See how silly that sounds?
Not to mention, using an AI to do a job is NOT equivalent to learning the skills of the job. Me having a printer doesn't mean "painting skills were democratised".
But that's the whole point...
When things that previously took hundreds of hours of effort to learn now become available with just a few minutes, they become available to all -- even those without all that extra time, which is most people who have a lot of other competing priorities in their lives.
That's democratization.
I don't understand why you're trying to argue against that. It's a dictionary definition. It's just a meaning of the word.
Whatever you seem to be upset about is something else, I don't know what.