Unexpected €54k billing spike in 13 hours: Firebase browser key without API restrictions used for Gemini requests

[Balinor]

Good afternoon, I’m glad you’ve started showing signs of activity on the forum again. But you owe us an answer to a pressing question about content blocking - the introduction of a stricter safety filter (which isn’t working correctly, ruining both basic, innocent interactions and creative texts and stories). You asked us to provide examples, and we did, so how long do we have to wait for an official response? Could you please stop running away from us and answer honestly?

Did Google AI Studio silently change safety filtering today? Full responses now get erased instead of stopping generation – this breaks creative writing and RP

Hey folks, I have not seen this change, does anyone have a screen recording of the behavior? Generally, AI Studio is not a creative writing platform. The playground is meant as a place to quickly test Google’s models as a developer, then get an API key and go build something with it. I think for developer use cases, you can use the API how you were initially describing, but not sure about this safety change, in general it seems to be working as intended but happy to see the screenshot / recordin…