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Zach Hudson

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“…the LLMs and these AI companies are cannibalizing the data that they rely on for training. Like you see, think about how many bloggers, wirecutters, these types of posts that used to exist in the world are disappearing because there's no incentive to write them anymore. They're just going to get sucked up immediately.” — Zach Hudson, This Week in Startups

Hudson sells an AI-powered product search tool, and the panel had just been praising user-generated content as a free viral growth loop. He agreed with the growth point and then turned it over: the industry he is selling into is consuming the open web writing it needs for training. His conclusion was that a product without its own user-generated content will eventually have nothing left to learn from.

This Week in Startups · 2026-08-19 Context → Listen →

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