openai.error.RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details

I’m trying to have a play with ChatGPT and get it so that I can ask some questions and the responses will go into a word document. It’s probably easy but just as a starting point I just want to connect and ask a single question like ‘what is the capital of Germany?’

Unfortunately when I try and run it, I keep getting the message “openai.error.RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details.” As far as I’m aware I’m on a free plan and am not asking for anything complicated. I’ve had a look at the dashboard and I’ve not used anything.

Assume there’s something obvious that I’m not doing or seeing, but not sure what to do now?

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