[ucha]

It needs to not have economic value but it doesn't necessarily need to be useless and wasteful.

[Xmd5a]

For instance if the end product, in this case the LLM, is made available to anyone, publicly...

[piiToo]

If it improves the economic value of something else it has economic value just not on its own discrete value.

Wrappers on candy don’t have value intrinsically but improve the quality of the candy.