As an attacker, instead of DDoSing a service we could just upload a bunch of NSFW text so Google kills their infra for us.
Other providers, like OpenAI, at least provide a free moderation API. Google has a moderation API, that after the free 50k requests it is more expensive than Gemini 1.5 flash (Moderation API costs $0.0005/100 characters vs Gemini 1.5 flash $0.000001875/100 characters).
As an attacker, instead of DDoSing a service we could just upload a bunch of NSFW text so Google kills their infra for us.
Other providers, like OpenAI, at least provide a free moderation API. Google has a moderation API, that after the free 50k requests it is more expensive than Gemini 1.5 flash (Moderation API costs $0.0005/100 characters vs Gemini 1.5 flash $0.000001875/100 characters).