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> the way OpenAI implemented their billing you will get a 4xx/5xx response code, but you will still get billed for the request and whatever the servers generated and you didn't get. That's borderline fraudulent.

It's fraudulent, full stop. Maybe they're able to weasel out of it with credit card companies because you're buying "credits."

I suspect it was done this way out of pure incompetence; the OpenAI team handling the customer-facing infrastructure have a pretty poor history. Far as I know you still can't do something simple like change your email address.



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