Mark Cuban to Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon and other AI companies: It is a dumb idea to pay …

Mark Cuban has a clear message for major artificial intelligence (AI) companies. The American billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank judge has asked companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon, to stop relying on celebrity endorsements and political spending to improve public perception of AI. Instead, he argued that companies should directly engage with communities, workers and artists who fear the impact of AI on jobs and livelihoods. In a post on the social media platform X, Cuban said AI companies have already “lost the PR battle” and warned that public opposition to AI infrastructure, particularly data centres, is growing due to concerns about wealth concentration and job losses rather than the facilities themselves.