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At the end of the day, using a search engine is as much of a black box as an LLM, with the main benefit of a search engine being what it links to. Getting sources from an LLM is not the same as asking an LLM for information, and I have no problem with that part. However, LLMs usually do more than provide links, and that in itself is a bad thing that causes me to only use them as a last resort.
Framing is a psychological effect that can influence how we think, even as a subliminal level. When an LLM provides a summary before it gives you the link, it colors how we read the actual information before we even click on it. This is a problem that exists with headlines and titles as well, but at least those are usually written by the same entity that produced the information. With an LLM, the bullshit machine primes us before we get a chance to think for ourselves. This is probably intentional.
When Google introduced their AI summaries, I was furious because they didn't include any links alongside them. Using an LLM to augment search queries is all I ever really wanted from Google's machine learning, and it took way too long for them to add that functionality. I still get annoyed by having to look past the summaries to get to it.
It's clear that executives with slop for brains are responsible for this reality, thanks to both their stupidity, and their malicious desire to manipulate people. They both don't understand how to properly use machine learning, and want to use it to misinform us for their fascist overlords. This is no doubt part of why "asking ChatGPT" pisses me off.