The vocabulary loss is not incidental — it is the mechanism by which one narrow application colonizes an entire field's identity. When practitioners find themselves having to deliberately reuse a term to reclaim it , the term has already functioned as a displacement device. 'AI' in the institutional science press now means generative AI, and specifically LLMs. The computational tools that have powered protein structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomic analysis for decades get absorbed into that frame or rendered invisible by it.