Microsoft increases Bing limits to six responses per chat and sixty per day

Microsoft is relaxing the 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 adjust the tone of Bing.

Microsoft increased chat limits on Tuesday, the company announces in a press release. The tech giant indicates that it plans to bring back longer chats eventually. The company is working on ‘the best way to do this responsibly’. Microsoft says this first limit increase will allow “natural daily use” of Bing for “the vast majority.”

The tech giant says the limits will be further increased later. For example, the daily limit will soon be increased to a total of 100 messages. Also, normal searches will soon no longer count towards those limits.

Microsoft will soon begin testing an additional option that will allow users to adjust the tone of Bing. Users can then choose from a more precise tone, where Bing will provide short and search-oriented answers. Bing will also have 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 at the beginning of 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 restrictions. However, on Friday a limit of five messages per session and fifty messages per day was imposed. Microsoft did this because Bing could become confused during long chat sessions and react strangely and aggressively to users. Users reported that Bing could sometimes react offensively, question its own existence, lie to users, insult and emotionally manipulate them. According to Microsoft, this problem mainly occurred in chat sessions of more than fifteen messages.