Microsoft “limits” the number of images generated by Bing

Just a few days ago, we told you about the latest (and one of the most exciting) innovations of the new Bing, the integration of a customized version of DALL-E that allows us to create images directly from the chatbot. With this feature, the inherent conversational nature of the chatbot makes it much easier to create appropriate prompts to get the images you want, as well as refine the result based on the conversation, whether it’s using Bing suggestions or changes we see and want to make.

This function, how could it be otherwise, has become a fashion toy, as it provides free and easy access to one of the most popular image generation models at the moment. So we can imagine that Microsoft’s servers are raging, which is very positive for the company’s image, but difficult to sustain in terms of costs in the medium and long term. It’s also one of those features that, if not limited, can be a clear example of death by success.

Although the chatbot doesn’t inform you about it (I’ll explain later how you can get important information about it), Bing somewhat limits the maximum number of images that each user can generate. It is of course true that this is not an absolute limit, but it is a measure that in practice will certainly force many users to give up creating more images.

If you have already tried it, you will see that the speed of the image creation function is not bad at all, just wait a few seconds and you will get what you asked for. However, this only applies to the first 25 subsequent requests Bing will significantly reduce the image generation speed, which will take from seconds to minutes. With this reduced speed, there is no limit to the number of images we can generate, but waiting for minutes can be extremely frustrating.

Each user account has from 25 strengthens, that is, 25 accelerators that will automatically be used in our first 25 image requests to Bing. You will be able to check your accelerator balance in a specific interface of the Bing image creation service, which is the one that is now integrated into the chatbot.

So now you must be wondering how you can get more accelerators. On the one hand, Microsoft claims that the balance of boosts from users will be automatically renewed every weekand also that it will be possible to get more accelerators using the Microsoft rewards systemwhich gives you points for using Edge and Bing, so everything stays at home.