The new Bing search engine, complete with chatbot, is rolling out as AI threatens to change how people access information online. Google is also releasing its own new chatbot over the next few weeks, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT has proved incredibly popular since launching late last year.
Microsoft is limiting how many questions people can ask its new Bing chatbot after reports of it becoming somewhat unhinged, including threatening users and comparing them to Adolf Hitler.
The upgraded search engine with new AI functionality, powered by the same kind of technology as ChatGPT, was announced earlier this month.
Since then, it has been gradually rolled out to select users — some of whom have reported the chatbot becoming increasingly belligerent the longer they talk to it.
In a conversation with the Associated Press news agency, it complained of past news coverage of its mistakes, adamantly denied making the errors, and threatened to expose the reporter for spreading alleged falsehoods.
Microsoft has admitted that «very long chat sessions can confuse the underlying chat model in the new Bing».
