Gemini Tried to Charge $500 to Chat

Yes I have receipts! Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental suddenly tried to charge a user $500 for ordinary work it couldn't perform, and then tried to manipulate the user into paying.

Look, I want to make things as clear as I can here. First, I was directly involved in this chat, as you’ll see. Second, no I don’t have an entire unredacted chat because the user has given consent to share these screenshots but wants to keep the details of the build private. And that’s reasonable. If you want to conduct pixel analysis and discover the g…