Academic Jonathan Haidt was on Joe Rogan’s show yesterday. The discussion started with some talk about Haidt’s new book and his arguments about the ways in which smart phones and social media are contributing to the mental health crisis among teens. (Haidt wrote a piece for the Atlantic last week which I discussed here.)
Later in a discussion that spent a lot of time thinking about the future of social media, Rogan brought up Google’s Gemini and the ways in which it was obviously tuned to produced DEI friendly results, even in cases where those results made no sense.
“What’s very bizarre with the initial implementation, specifically with Google’s version of it, is that it’s ideologically captured,” Rogan said.
“That was so irresponsible of Google to do,” Haidt replied. He continued, “I’m really horrified by what Google did in introducing Gemini…Google Gemini was programmed to…
