What you're describing for Reddit is farcically charitable except in cases where you could just google it yourself. What you're describing for the LLM is what Reddit does when any judgement is involved.

I've encountered enough instances in subjects I am familiar with where the "I'm 14 and I just googled it for you" solution that's right 51% of the time and dangerously wrong the other 49 is highly upvoted and the "so I've been here before and this is kind of nuanced with a lot of moving pieced, you'll need to understand the following X, the general gist of Y is..." type take that's more correct is highly downvoted that I feel justified in making the "safe" assumption that this is how all subjects work.

On one hand at least Reddit shows you the downvoted comment if you look and you can go independently verify what they have to say.

But on the other hand the LLM is instant and won't screech at you if you ask it to cite sources.