Microsoft Unveils Bing AI Controls That Separate Training and Grounding Choices
TLDR
Microsoft announced new Bing AI content controls that let site owners make separate choices about training, grounding, or both, while staying eligible for Bing search results.
What this means for your site
- Status
- Policy change
- Platform
- Bing
- Affects
- AI training preferences, AI grounding preferences, Bing search eligibility
- Who
- Site owners managing how their content is used by Bing AI
- Effective
- Not specified in the source
- Action needed
- Not specified in the source
Optimixed Overview
Optimixed's original report on this story.
Krishna Madhavan, Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Bing, announced new Bing AI content controls offering simpler and clearer preferences for training, grounding, or both, while remaining eligible for Bing search results. The announcement was first reported by SERoundtable.
How we got here
- Oct 30Microsoft Shows Ads Inside Bing's Copilot-Powered AI Overviews
Microsoft is showing ads within Bing AI Overviews powered by Copilot, based on a screenshot shared by Khushal Bherwani.
- Sep 25Bing Tests Replacing Copilot With AI Mode in Search Tabs
Microsoft is testing renaming Bing's Copilot search tab to AI Mode, aligning its naming with Google's terminology.
- Aug 28Google Testing Auto-Promotion of AI Mode From Search AI Overviews
Google is testing an AI Overview experience that automatically expands to full AI Mode responses without requiring users to click a button.
- Aug 27Microsoft Tests Renaming Copilot Search to AI Overviews on Bing
Microsoft is testing a rebrand of its Bing Copilot Search answer box to "AI Overviews," matching Google's terminology.