Google Bard definitely has access to the internet to generate responses.

ChatGPT was purposely not give access but they are building plugins to slowly give it access to real time data from select sources

I feel exactly the same. It’s really feels like the early days of reddit on here. Everyone is nice and the content is genuine.

I got really tired of typing out comments only to delete them because I didn’t have to patience to be told I’m wrong.

If things go bad here and the bots and the ads take over, we can move to another instance make new communities and start over.