> The problem is LLM output’s value is intrinsically zero because there is no scarcity to it. I too can just prompt “What’s the rate of self hosted email?”. If an article is signaling that its value is zero, then everyone should just move on as it’s not providing anything to anyone.

That only applies when the article's author just prompted an LLM (and did not supply the LLM with any data you did not have) and then posted the results.

I'd expect most article authors who use LLMs are more involved then that, checking the results and correcting (or telling the LLM to correct) thing that it got wrong.

If the article is from someone who knows more about the subject then you do then that will be more valuable that what you would get asking the LLM yourself (even if the prompt used in the article didn't include anything that your LLM didn't know).

Sure but if they aren’t editing their copy to make it readable then I probably won’t trust anything else. It’s not hard to read what comes out of an LLM and make it readable.