> Could AI help you build a competitor to beat TikTok in just a few minutes? Maybe in the next couple of years, according to Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO.

> Could AI help you build a competitor to beat TikTok in just a few minutes? Maybe in the next couple of years, according to Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO. Seems like there's an obvious flaw in this premise since it could also help a billion other people do the same thing so in that case... no, pretty much none of you are "beating TikTok"? Same way that creating a N64-level game in 2024 doesn't get you the same press or audience as it did back then. I think we're already at the point where programming skill isn't the barrier between making "netflix history-based tinder" or whatever. So are we really just talking about making a shit-ton more spam of all sorts? App spam, super-SEO spam, fake social-media post spam, etc. Is making it easy to make race-to-the-bottom spam plays gonna give you ROIs on hundreds of billions or trillions for OpenAI or whoever else? On one hand, MS made a lot of money selling Word despite it being harder to make money as a writer now that the barrier to entry is so low. On the other hand, the capital costs to create Word were far lower, and the market-barrier to entry for Word replacements back in the 80s and 90s was higher.