I think that you do not need to feel uneasy at all. It is your computer and your memory space that the data is stored and operating in you can do whatever you like to the bits in that space. I would encourage you to continue that experiment.
They won't even read your defence.
This is why I do such experiments on ChatGPT and not Claude.
I don't want to get banned by Claude but I couldn't care less if ChatGPT bans me.