Finally, an answer to the question of who will keep paying for AI slop when the true cost of tokens is charged: low life thieves enabled by some truly stupid SOPs that allow them to charge $10k to the credit card of any random Google Maps user with an API key that they have been using for a while.
I keep hearing horror stories about Google screwing over their corporate customers by silently enabling Gemini API access on Google Maps API projects.
I've heard at least a dozen stories now where SaaS companies and individual developers have gotten burned and billed for 10s or 100s of thousand $
