Bing Chat Gets Hit By Robot Scrapers Too
Since there have been webpages on the internet, scrapers have been out there scraping content off those sites for one reason or another. Well, even Microsoft’s Bing Chat has to deal with scrapers and yes, those scrapers can even cause sites hosted by Microsoft to slow down.
Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing at Microsoft, said on Twitter that Bing Chat had a “scrapping attack” on the search results pages and it resulted in Microsoft having to shut down answers in the search results during the attack. Shutting those answers down for a bit led to a “lot of extra capacity” for the servers and thus you may have seen a faster response rate from Bing Chat during that time.
Bing is also “running speed optimization experiments on Creative” mode, which may make it faster as well.
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) March 30, 2023