How a viral AI startup feud exposed tech's new attention economy

avipat_/X; generalcatalyst/X; Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Last Friday morning, Avi Patel was scrolling on X when he saw a post that made him crash out. The post, from General Catalyst investor Yuri Sagalov, announced a $31 million seed round for a startup called Luel, which pays people for AI training data. Patel is the founder of a startup called Kled that also pays people for AI training data. When Patel looked at Luel's website, it appeared almost identical to Kled's, right down to the font...