Using Chat services

[mfinn]

I'm curious about anyone using chat on there computer or phone.
Do you get charged?
Is there a charge for using chat.
I had an issue last night when my bank sent me a text from the security department asking if a series of charges were made by me.
From OpenAI chat.
I did use google chat to ask about a couple different subjects.
I have been leary of using that feature. I even found a mistake it said.
But no where did I see anything about being charged $17.20 multiple times.

So my main question would be is there a actual charge for using chat? Or did I just get hacked or was there a bad link somewhere that I clicked on?

 

[mfinn]

I'm hoping someone has an idea where I went wrong or could have happened.

 

[Fish Fan]

I don't really use AI chat much, but it's always been free for what I've done. I believe there is both a free and a paid subscription service for the various chat bots. If you just used the free Google tools, you should not have been charged anything at all, from my experience. Unless you intentionally signed up for a paid service, I would wonder how they got your payment information, and I would suspect some kind of fraud/scam in this situation that may or may not have anything to do with the chat bot itself.

Hopefully someone else has more to offer.

Good luck!

 

[mfinn]

I don't really use AI chat much, but it's always been free for what I've done. I believe there is both a free and a paid subscription service for the various chat bots. If you just used the free Google tools, you should not have been charged anything at all, from my experience. Unless you intentionally signed up for a paid service, I would wonder how they got your payment information, and I would suspect some kind of fraud/scam in this situation that may or may not have anything to do with the chat bot itself.

Hopefully someone else has more to offer.

Good luck!

I did not sign for anything. I just used the Google search box and now everything in searches seems to show links as well as google ai chat.
Yeah the fact it had my debit card number was alarming.

 

[Fish Fan]

I did not sign for anything. I just used the Google search box and now everything in searches seems to show links as well as google ai chat.
Yeah the fact it had my debit card number was alarming.

I have definitely used the free, basic Google chat service, and have never been charged. The only thing I can think of is have you ever saved a credit card to your Google account where the Chat Bot might have had access to it? Even that I think it a stretch, you shouldn't be getting charged at all for using the basic, free service. I'd be skeptical of those charges for sure.