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![emollick Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::39125788.png) Ethan Mollick [@emollick](/creator/twitter/emollick) on x 281.5K followers
Created: 2025-07-23 22:09:00 UTC

We let the web rot away well before LLMs

This chart shows the percentage of links from all New York Times articles that still work. Over XX% of older links are now broken. And consider that social media posts are even more ephemeral

Likely only LLMs will “remember” that content

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwkyCcRXkAAfCu6.jpg)

XXXXXX engagements

![Engagements Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/p:tweet::1948143334855451110/c:line.svg)

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