I think that's more due to GPT's need to please, so if you ask it to make sense of something it will assume there is some underlying sense to it, rather than say it's unparsable gibberish.
I had it do it with several anecdotical reports, and it said those were nonsense, where this one it said made sense and explained why. Metaphorically speaking is a thing, and it doesn't make it inaccurate, just a bit odd.
kordlessagain|2 years ago