i guess my take was that i find this a more excusable grammatical mistake than say getting a simple addition question wrong, which we've seen from gpt3. i could agree with "deceptive or bad writing" and maybe that's a more sinister error than something obvious wrong now that i think about it.

it's funny for me to think that i'm going out of my way to try and give Bard the same benefit of the doubt and work to try and find a way it could be right, the same way i would for a friend.