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If you ask LLM something you know you can distinguish noise from good output. If you ask LLM something you don’t know then how do you know if the output is correct? There are cases where checking is easier than producing the result, e.g. when you ask for a reference.

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Book buyers should give themselves primarily by who's the author, I think.

Choose a book from someone that has a hard earned reputation to protect.

There is bootstrapping process of learning which authors in that field have good reputation before you know anything about the field. That is being disrupted by LLMs as well, though.

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