Well – this might be more succesful in boostering the IT skills of France’s next generation than any curriculum reform.

Reading is not an alternative to listening. Both have different use cases. You cannot read while driving, to name just one.

Using different voices to read different parts of a book turns an audiobook into a bad audio play, and arguably, a bad audio play is worse than a mediocre audio book.

What audible misses is, that, while reading is a technique that can be automated, narrating is an art. They can use AI to read books, they cannot use AI to narrate books.

Your example of AI use is a good example of this: AI can read your content. AI can enhance your capabilities. But only you can narrate it.

Did you ever heard a single AI-narrated content that did not make you run away screaming?

You need checks to send money from the government to the oligarchs, and balances to know how much money they earned. So yes, checks and balances are fundamental and necessary.

Ethymologically you are right, I wasn’t really aware of the alchemical background of five rounds of destillation when I wrote my comment.

Nonetheless, “quintessential for” is not unheard (or rather unread?) of:

It will take another generation or two until this usage becomes normalized, so thank you for pointing me to a better style.

Of course – if the AI is supposed to give you an answer, they have to know what you are writing, so yes, logging your keystrokes is quintessential for every online service you interact with. You cannot get an answer without asking.

The wording is strange, though, and I’m not sure whether this ToS allows them to collect and process what you are typing while using their service, or all your typing.