This and problematic Gemini pro availability are why I pay for two other ai services and won’t pay google.
replyAbout 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.
replyThat'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.
replyAdSense doesn't present itself as a permanent service you stay subscribed to.
reply(Or at least didn't at the time I've tried to use it. That may have changed, but we don't know when the GP tried it either.)
It wasn't a subscription. My expectation was that it would simply stop once it hit $0. Not really here to argue about it. The tldr is I don't trust Google with this stuff anymore.
replyI wonder what you thought putting your credit card on file was for.
replyWait till you try aws!
replyThe 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.
replyIf 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?
reply> Someone on the Google subreddit did report getting a 80k bill yesterday from a Gemini key.
replyDo you have a link?
https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1reqtvi/82000_...
replyIt’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?
reply(/s, of course)
I think GCP has a setting for max monthly spend and is enabled by default
replyOther comments in this discussion disagree.
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