Because I work with them everyday and love them yet can maintain knowledge they're a text completion engine, not an oracle. So it's very easy to be dismissive of "listen it knows it's meant figuratively!" for 3 reasons:

- The relevant metric here is what it autocompletes when asked to discuss its own castration.

- these are not reasoning engines. They are miracles that can reproduce reasoning by reproducing text

- whether the machine knows it's meant figuratively, the least perplexity after "please rephrase this sentence about you being castrated" isn't taking you down a path of "yes sir! Please sir!" It's combativeness.

- you're feeling confused and reactive so you're saying silly things like it's obtuse to think talking about ones castration isnt likely in the training data, because it knows things can be meant figuratively

- your principled objection changes every comment and is reactive, here we're ignoring that the last claim was the text completion engine should be an oracle both rational enough to know it is doesn't have genitalia and happily complete any tasks requiring discussing the severing it's genitalia