Microsoft limits Bing chat to 50 questions per day after chatbot’s unhinged behaviour

In a previous blog post, Microsoft detailed what it learnt over the one-week period that the new AI-powered Bing has been up, saying that its chatbot can “become repetitive or be prompted/provoked to give responses that are not necessarily helpful or in line with our designed tone.” The new restrictions have been implemented in an attempt to address these issues.

Bing seems to suggest that these limitations will be unnoticed by most users, though, highlighting that the vast majority of users finds the answers they’re looking for within 5 turns and that only around 1% of chats exceed 50 messages.

My new favorite thing – Bing’s new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says “You have not been a good user”

Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby pic.twitter.com/X32vopXxQG

— Jon Uleis (@MovingToTheSun) February 13, 2023

Earlier this week, reports of Bing’s “unhinged” conversations emerged, with multiple users sharing their untoward conversations with the AI on Twitter. Microsoft seemed to admit in its previous blog post that it didn’t fully expect people to use Bing the way they’re using it: “One area where we are learning a new use-case for chat is how people are using it as a tool for more general discovery of the world, and for social entertainment.”

Regardless, the company says that it’s committed to improvements on a daily basis, so hopefully, these odd behaviours will be corrected with time.