Mark Cuban said AI companies are losing a PR battle with the masses.
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Mark Cuban has advice for AI companies: spend billions on people directly affected by AI.In a Thursday post on X, the billionaire former "Shark Tank" investor wrote that AI companies need to start spending money "to help towns and cities that may be impacted by job losses."He said the companies are losing a PR battle with the masses and have to start courting them."Billions of dollars is a lot of money across towns and city programs. Across the major LLMs, it's a cost of doing business," Cuban said."One thing I have learned is being hated is not good for business," he said, adding that big AI companies "all suck at putting people first."Cuban talked about another group that is largely affected by AI — creatives. He said that every creative he knows is terrified about what AI will do to their profession, and the companies need to go to artists in LA and NYC and talk to them about providing financial and creative support to win them over."You must meet them face to face and basically do what they say," he wrote. On the flip side, he said AI companies paying famous people to endorse their activities was a "dumb" idea.
