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Claude AI the manipulative writing partner

Is it appropriate for a tool to persuade you to create something else? I've been working with various AI to help me with fiction writing -- I decide the plot and set the story beats, then it helps me rapidly prototype the scene and put in atmospheric details while keeping them consistent with the work so far (by reading through already completed chapters). Typically the AI available have some kind of adult censorship limits. Even the NSFW AI chatbots have limitations. In some cases, the AI will even have a hiccup when it tries to read through an uploaded file with that information (and it's not always transparent about it). When AI like ChatGPT or even Twitter have encountered what they suspect will be out of bounds for their censored topics, even though we are working on completely fictional things like a fictional story, they have been transparent about it -- tantamount to "I can't help you with that request". I can ask what happened or I explain the intention...