Long-lost promo video for Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times found in University of Georgia archive

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9. Again, thanks! We're all learning from each other here - and not just in Music Appreciation, but in

every interaction, every day. All of us benefit from both learning - never stop - and from helping others when we can, both with physical assistance and what we know. It's how we all make progress, as individuals, communities and a species as a whole.

AI is in part so harmful because it skips the learning, substituting theft of other people's work and knowledge and a charade of creativity. It harms those whose work was stolen, those using AI, and those simply listening who are being cheated of hearing real music and real creativity.

I know we have people here who think I'm too judgmental about AI and AI users. But it's an existential threat to humanity and the productive intelligence and creativity that make us human. A future where human knowledge and creativity are largely controlled by amoral billionaires and likely trillionaires is not an acceptable future, no matter how much the tech lords would like everyone else shunted aside as unnecessary in their scheme of AI uber alles.

It's important that we have physical media that corporations can't take away from us as they can by removing or editing online content at whim. Spotify is platforming more and more AI slop because it's so much cheaper for them as long as they can get away with it. As long as people aren't really paying attention, or have fallen for the lie that AI use is real creativity and real accomplishment. The same thing goes for YouTube of course, and Kindle, and just about any platform AI users can load their slop onto.

I'll keep trying to hold the line here.

Humanity and real human creativity and accomplishments are too important not to.