I’d be interested to know whether Bard has been tuned (or source prompted) into speaking in the first person in this way, and thus there is potentially an element of culpability here since that style of output does tend towards potential plagiarism. (“I did this / I did that / etc”)

Or equally this could simply be a byproduct of language completion, since the phrase “I tested the hardware” etc is likely present verbatim in the source training material.