Grok $0.05 Per Request, Guidelines Violation Fee
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Grok charges $0.05 per request with a guidelines violation fee, sparking skepticism and criticism.
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I just checked and since the inception of my site I've spent a bit over $3000 on inference that was ultimately blocked from being shown to the end user.
And I have very permissive thresholds for the classifiers, the content getting blocked is "radioactive", not even toxic.
For my product I don't charge the user for blocked requests because content classifiers aren't perfect and sometimes trigger frivolously... but in theory a persistent user intentionally trying to push boundaries could cost me a lot of money: since I'm still paying for resources used to do the inference that was blocked.
This seems like an ok way to deal with that gap, but only if there's a reasonable amount of grace built in that they're not detailing here (since detailing it will result in people abusing right up until said grace expires)
This can only be good for our business, HugstonOne will get more users, like exponentially fast :)
With one violation, it lost 3334 tokens.
Elon's Wikipedia article from its top to the end of Starlink section counts as 3088 tokens: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elon_Musk&oldid=1...
Usage Guidelines Violation Fee A rare occurrence for most users, when your request is deemed to be in violation of our usage guideline by our system, we will charge a $0.05 per request usage guidelines violation fee.