Google is warning users not to fully trust Bard for reliability. The urgent advice is to reference and validate the answers Bard gives with the Google search engine. Users have found that Bard may give wrong answers or even totally makes up the answers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66303877

Google what our chatbot tells you… says Google

Tom Singleton, BBC news,28 jul 2023

Google says people should use its search engine to check whether information provided by its chatbot, Bard, is actually accurate.

Some have suggested chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT could “kill” traditional search, which is dominated by Google.

But users have found the information they provide can be wrong or even entirely made up.

Google’s UK boss Debbie Weinstein said Bard was “not really the place that you go to search for specific information”.

Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, she said Bard should be considered an “experiment” best suited for “collaboration around problem solving” and “creating new ideas”.

“We’re encouraging people to actually use Google as the search engine to actually reference information they found,” she said.