No, the AI itself isn't asking anything because it's not a sentient being capable of rational, independent thought. The people making the AIs are asking everyone else to blindly believe that using the word "learning" a bunch makes a computer and a human equivalent entities.

> Who cares?

Quite a lot of people, as can be shown in literally any discussion where AI comes up.

> Artificial intelligences should have as much access to reading material as any human.

Why? Other than AI creators wanting to make infinite money by generating spam en-masse, of course.