Microsoft has increased the number of queries in Bing’s chat mode to six messages per session and sixty per day.
Thanks for all the passionate and valuable feedback as it is helping us learn and improve.
— Bing (@bing) February 21, 2023
In the future the company plans to lift the daily limit to 100 messages, and will stop counting regular search queries in ‘Chat’ mode.
In addition, developers announced three new modes that will allow users to choose the tone of their interactions. Among them:
- precise — short and targeted messages;
- creative — long and \”chatty\” responses;
- balanced — a combination of the previous two modes.
Company representatives also commented on restrictions introduced last week. According to the press release, developers did not expect people would use Bing’s long chats as entertainment.
In turn, the loosening of restrictions is an attempt to strike a balance between ‘feedback’ and chats with safeguards, the company said.
On February 7, Microsoft introduced an updated Bing search engine with integrated ChatGPT. On the same day, the company opened access to it to a limited number of people.
A week later users complained about the chatbot’s strange behaviour. The company explained that the base search model gets confused in sessions of 15 or more messages.
On 17 February the developers imposed limits on the number of messages in Bing chats. The search engine also stopped discussing a number of topics, including its own work.