'Extremely alarming': ChatGPT and Gemini respond to high-risk questions about suicide — including...

MSG Thomas Currie -
It Also Appears As Though Far Too Many People Are Thinking Artificially!
And Some Only Think On A Temporary Basis. AIN'T Got SH*T For Brains

Cpl Vic Burk -
This I THINK I Saw On TV: A Teacher Said "I Can Always Tell When One Of My Students Is Using Their I-Pad To Look-Up Answers & Cheat On The Exam; When They DO, They Smile, And When A Student is Cheating Is The Only Time I've Seen Someone Smile While Looking Down At Their Groin."

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - Or when they are on their phones they stare at their crock for way too long!

Cpl Vic Burk - Throughout my education I ran into ONE teacher who really made sense when he told us "Never memorize anything you can look up" the overwhelming majority leaned the other way, expecting students to memorize trivia and I have long felt that this was because the trivia was easier to test.

I attended the Tank Master Gunner Course (the people who invented the concept that everyone else jumped on the bandwagon) back before the Armor School was reorganized to follow the less effective model used by the Infantry School. Back the the school was organized into Departments based on subject areas and most courses were taught that way. In the Master Gunner course, the Maintenance Department phase was taught before the Weapons Department phase. The difference was night vs day. In the maintenance department phase each test required you to follow the technical manual. You would fail a task even if you performed it exactly right but did it without opening the TM to the proper page for that task. The Weapons Department training emphasized memorizing almost everything. The rationale was that as the unit "expert" the Master Gunner ought to know all the answers without ever having to say "I get back to you on that" -- I considered this approach ridiculous but even when I returned to the school as a Training Developer I was never able to change that attitude.

One classic example: there as a test question that asked "How many degrees does the timing drum of an M85 machine gun rotate in low rate of fire?" (The only acceptable answer was 270˚) -- My problem with this question from an educational point of view was WHY would you care? The answer comes straight from the manual, BUT the timing drum is an internal component that you can't see, adjust or even touch. There is no way to measure the actual rotation to know if it really was rotating 270˚ and nothing you could do about it if it weren't. I tried unsuccessfully to get the question changed to "How many degrees does the timing drum of an M85 machine gun rotate in high rate of fire?" with the required answer being 0˚ -- this still suffers from there not being anything you can DO with the information, but at least it would demonstrate an understanding of the function of the timing drum (which only rotates in low rate of fire).

Agreed SSgt Richard Kensinger . I tell parents with kids who have eating disorders or self harm to keep the kids off ChatGPT