Unlike ChatGPT, and like Bing, Bard makes search queries for extra context before answering. Of course, that leads to things like this where they can find articles referring to themselves, which also happened with Bing.

It's actually a bit disturbing that it just believes whatever it finds, really no concern for what is a reliable source? Like at all? What did google work on then for all these years of secrecy? Couldn't they have released this thing years ago? I did expect bard to be awful but not that awful, embarrassing.

I suspect Bard is a small variant of their best model it seems too significantly behind, they must've severely crippled it. It can't even decode morse code, gpt4 can even draw you an SVG and encode it in base64, for example.