ChatBot UNUSABLE -- PERMANENT ERROR: Quota Exceeded error

[SteveJG]

@AlanScot

quota is

as described here:

The (404 Usage Over Quota) error of ChatBot Component

This is what MIT says about a similar issue: "The quota code maintains three items for each account. A current usage, the account quota and the last time the quota record was updated. When you do a new query, I check your quota usage. I do this by calculating: quota * (current_time - timestamp) new_usage = current_usage - ---------------------------------- seconds_in_a_day If new_usage is less than quota, access is permitted. Otherwise, an over-quota error is sen…

You can avoid the App Inventor user quota by signing up for your own ChatBot api key..Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

If you want a higher 'quota', obtain your own ChatBot api key instead of using thee limited amount of free usage MIT provides for experimenters.

You could use Gordon's ChatBot extension [F/OS] 🧠 Artificial Intelligence and OpenAI! instead of the ChatBot tool.