Is the GISC still operating?

[amanise]

There used to be a thing.. Guild of International Songwriters and Composers - based down in Cornwall somewhere from memory. Anybody out there know if it still going?

[Wonks]

If you’d bothered to Google it, you’d find they do still exist.

[amanise]

If you’d bothered to Google it, you’d find they do still exist.

...hmmm. You tend not to get much of a conversation out of Google though. But then again....

[BJG145]

I have some sympathy with that attitude; I was aware of doing something similar recently when I professed my ignorance of, what was it, five mile cities or something despite the fact that it would have been fewer keystrokes to Google it.

As AI becomes dominant we'll learn to cherish good old-fashioned human ignorance.

[amanise]

...hhhmmmm. So if I read that one one way you're implying I'm humanly ignorant - or another way you're sympathetic to my preferring to open up (polite) conversation rather than just sit in glorious isolation getting everything from Google. What a wonderful thing the English language is. I'd have never got that from a boring old Google search.

But if I've offended Mr Wonks by posting unnecessarily I'm truly sorry. No-one should assume they have open license on another persons time or sensibilities!

See - a human being (rather than an AI - I hasten to add for clarity) might have answered something like "Well, I believe they still operate - but perhaps not from Cornwall any more" - or something like that. And then that would have possibly led someone else to chip in with something like "No, no! Most likely not Cornwall - and I think the old Geezer that ran it might be no longer with us" - or some such polite discourse. But sadly, that didn't happen.

[BWC]

My view is that if you had Googled it first, you might have asked a more interesting question, leading to a more interesting conversation.

[amanise]

Well, at least that's polite - and a good point. It was early in the morning and the coffee hadn't kicked in. Perhaps it should have been a compound question such as "Is the GISC still operating - and is anyone on this forum a member? How useful do you find it?". I suspect, alas, that now we'll never know. Quel dommage!

[Arpangel]

I’d love to ask AI a question, and get back "who gives a f**k" that would truly be a human response.

[amanise]

I’d love to ask AI a question, and get back "who gives a f**k" that would truly be a human response.

Yes. That's the sort of short form dismissive response you can live, and work with. I don't think you're going to hear that from ChatGPT any time soon. Unless, of course, it's in reference to a query about free adult entertainment.

[Arpangel]

free adult entertainment.

That’s the "Musicians Lounge" isn’t it?

[amanise]

free adult entertainment.

That’s the "Musicians Lounge" isn’t it?

Hmmm. I thought I was being groomed for something... Just goes to show you never can tell!