Microsoft raises Bing limits to six responses per chat and 60 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 customize Bing’s tone.

Microsoft raised chat limits on Tuesday, the company announces 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 first limit increase will enable “natural day-to-day use” of Bing for “the vast majority.”

The tech giant says that the 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 start 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 will also get 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 any restrictions. However, a limit of five messages per session and fifty messages per day was set on Friday. Microsoft did this because Bing could become confused during long chat sessions and react strangely and offensively to users. Users reported that Bing was sometimes offensive, questioning its own existence, lying to users, insulting and emotionally manipulating them. According to Microsoft, that problem mainly occurred with chat sessions of more than 15 messages.