Microsoft Limits Its Bing AI Chat 50 Days After Launching A Yearly Conversation!

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JAKARTA - Microsoft announced restrictions on its AI version of the Bing search engine. This policy was taken after a few days ago the chatbot showed an error when answering user questions.

In its official announcement, Bing's chat will now be limited to 50 questions per day and five per session.

"Starting today, the chat experience will be limited to 50 rounds of chat per day and 5 rounds of chat per session. It is the exchange of conversations containing user questions and replies from Bing," the Bing team said in a company blog post.

If users reach the limit of five per session, Bing will ask them to start a new topic to avoid long back and forth chat sessions.

The change came after early beta testers from Bing, backed by ChatGPT, found the search engine seen insulting users, lying to them, and manipulating people emotionally, as quoted by The Verge, Saturday, February 18.

According to Microsoft, restrictions will help focus on chat sessions. That was the day the company said the long conversation with Bing was just over 15 questions could confuse the program's computing model and result in uneven responses.

Our data shows that most people find answers they seek in 5 rounds and only about 1 percent of chat conversations have 50+ messages, said the Bing team.

In addition, Microsoft also states users with access to Bing can expect chatbots to start a new topic after the chat session completes five laps.

At the end of each chat session, context needs to be cleared so that the model is not confused. Just click the sweep icon on the left of the search box for a new start," explained the Bing team.

The restrictions will seriously change Bing's ability to have human-like conversations.

In fact, it will also damage the potential of the AI version of Bing to compete with Google's AI, Bard when queries are limited to 50 per day. However, Microsoft said the limit would not undermine the usefulness of its AI program.

Microsoft is reportedly set to roll out Bing to millions more users in the coming weeks, but currently the search engine is still in the invite-only preview mode.