> quoting and citing an LLM is miles better

Not really. If someone is interested in an LLM's opinion, they can ask it themselves, all LLM providers are one browser tab away.

I'm as antiAI as many. And this isn't a great example, but there's can be value added in both the context and the prompt. E.g:

"I recall topic X being related to fact Y.

Chatgpt says this when asked about how Y relates to X

"blablabla"

"