If you do a web search and find a random blog post full of spelling errors and surrounded by ads, you're not going to trust that at the same level as a Stack Overflow post with a hundred upvotes, or an article with a long comment thread on HN.

But an LLM digests everything, and then spits out information with the same level of detail, same terminology, and same presentation regardless of where it came from. It strips away a lot of the contextual metadata we use to weigh credibility and trust.

Sure, you can follow references from an LLM, but at that point you're just using it a fuzzier form of web search.