Comment by Havoc
3 days ago
Someone on the Google subreddit did report getting a 80k bill yesterday from a Gemini key.
I’m very careful with Google and co since they’re so intent on infinite scaling access to your wallet
3 days ago
Someone on the Google subreddit did report getting a 80k bill yesterday from a Gemini key.
I’m very careful with Google and co since they’re so intent on infinite scaling access to your wallet
This and problematic Gemini pro availability are why I pay for two other ai services and won’t pay google.
About 10 years ago I got $100 for free to use on AdSense. I used it for fun not realizing it keeps going and then billed me. Since then I basically don't use any Google paid products. Hope that $250 was worth it.
That's... pretty much how every free trial works? Try signing up for a free month of Amazon Prime or Netflix and see what happens. The entire point of the promotion is retention.
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Wait till you try aws!
The article mentions "Building software at Google's scale is extraordinarily difficult...", which I've seen many times before when one or another of these big corporations has a serious security flaw.
If a company like Google, with its ability to attract the best of the best, cannot handle the complexity of security and safety with SaaS/PaaS products, at what point do we say that perhaps this sector needs much more oversight?
Oversight by whom?
> Someone on the Google subreddit did report getting a 80k bill yesterday from a Gemini key.
Do you have a link?
https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1reqtvi/82000_...
It’s pretty much a daily occurrence in all three of the big cloud subs that people still learning get wiped out because the clouds refuse to provide appropriate safeguards
Why spend resources on enterprise customers who have millions to spend on infra when they can just rely on obfuscation to make newbies pay hundreds if not thousands?
(/s, of course)
I think GCP has a setting for max monthly spend and is enabled by default
Other comments in this discussion disagree.