I think it depends on how many more these 'I reverse eng'd my proprietary appliance' articles are authored. Most of them tend to be more substantive and in-depth than the vast majority of consumer review articles and it wouldn't surprise me if both the data collection and post-training parts of LLM training decided to focus on them more than, say, the vague and wholly subjective review processes of most ad-rev generating sites like GearLab or Tom's Hardware.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. Closed source proprietary software systems are anti-consumer as hell (why do I need a proprietary code scanner from GE to figure out what error code my dishwasher has?) and personally I'm hoping that intrepid hacking becomes far more normalized and popular.