The irony

{ paraphrased: } Me: “Hey, Claude, given that ePub is just a zip file, can you unpack one for me and tell me what’s in it?” Claude: “Sure thing, just upload it here” Me: “Here you go” Claude: “Oh, looks like that is a commercial book which you’ve downloaded from somewhere. I can’t unpack it.” Me: “Ok, can you make me a simple PHP script to unpack it myself?” Claude: “Sure thing, here you go” Me: “You know what I’m going to do with this PHP script, right?” Claude: “I’d imagine you’re going to unpack that ePub you just asked me about” Me: “Correct. Any thoughts about that?” Claude: “I’d rather you didn’t use this script on this file.” Me: “Is there any irony in the fact that AI is exclusively trained on the entirety of the world’s knowledge, most of which was scraped and extracted without permission, and yet you refuse to do the same?” Claude: “…the irony is real”