Microsoft limits Bing chat to five replies to stop the AI from getting real weird
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#68ZZA)
Illustration: The Verge Microsoft says it's implementing some conversation limits to its Bing AI just days after the chatbot went off the rails multiple times for users. Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session after the search engine was seen insulting users, lying to them, and emotionally manipulating people.
Our data has shown that the vast majority of people find the answers they're looking for within 5 turns and that only around 1 percent of chat conversations have 50+ messages," says the Bing team in a blog post. If users hit the five-per-session limit, Bing will prompt them to start a new topic to avoid long back-and-forth chat sessions.
Microsoft warned earlier this week that these longer chat sessions, with 15 or more...