There is no ambiguity. We don't call Neil Armstrong "the first ever man on the moon". "The first" has a clear meaning and making any qualification of that implicit is either deceptive or bad writing.
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.
https://www.scout75.com/apollo-11.html#/
> On July 20, 1969 America landed the first ever man on the moon in Neil Armstrong.