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He includes a pointed link at the end to the Twitter of the AI Dungeon 2 guy - who discovered the hard way that when you have a popular app which involves downloading 6GB every time a new user shows up (or an old user, for that matter), you quickly hit $10k/day bills.



Oh wow- I had not looked at that in detail. TLDR: Guy puts free game online, and is charged $0.30 for every download, raking up a $10k bill.




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