Microsoft relaxes recently introduced chat limits for Bing. Users can now ask the chatbot up to six questions per chat session and sixty questions per day. Microsoft is also working on an option that will allow users to customize Bing’s tone.
Microsoft increased chat limits on Tuesday, announces the company in a press release. The tech giant indicates that it plans to bring back longer chats in the long term. The company is working on ‘the best way to do that responsibly’. Microsoft says this initial limit increase will enable “natural day-to-day use” of Bing for “the vast majority”.
The tech giant says limits will be further increased later. For example, soon the daily limit will be increased to a total of 100 messages. Also, normal searches will soon no longer count towards those limits.
Microsoft will also soon begin testing an additional option that will allow users to adjust the tone of Bing. Users can then choose, among other things, a more precise tone, where Bing will provide short and search-oriented answers. Bing also gets an option to provide more creative answers, in addition to an option that should strike a balance between the two.
The new Bing was announced early this month. Microsoft integrates an AI model from OpenAI, which is based on ChatGPT. The chatbot is already available to a limited number of people. Initially, users with access to the new Bing could talk to the chatbot without any restrictions. However, on Friday a limit of five messages per session and fifty messages per day set. Microsoft did this because Bing could get confused during long chat sessions and could act strangely and offensively towards users. Users reported that Bing was sometimes offensive, questioning its own existence, lying to users, insulting them, and emotionally manipulating them. According to Microsoft, this problem mainly occurred with chat sessions of more than fifteen messages.
