They’ve announced in other threads that they have stopped issuing these and are going full AQ.
See this other thread
The person responding is sort of just responding without explaining.
The problem is, they did this before the AQ keys started working. It’s a fundamental failure of the Gemini API team. I don’t know who on Earth is approving this and how these things get pushed to production when clearly they aren’t ready. My trust with Google is almost totally eroded.
My only workaround right now is using one of the older keys I happen to have, but apprently those might stop working June 19; and we already know these keys are fundamentally not secure and you risk running up a large bill if you keep using the unrestricted ones.
It’s really a mess here in AI Studio.