AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack

Gizmodo: “The era of AI has not been particularly great for cybersecurity. We know that vibe-coded websites and apps have been a hotbed of security flaws that leave the platforms vulnerable to attacks. It turns out that vibe-generating your passwords also puts you at risk. New research from cybersecurity firm Irregular found that passwords generated by large language models appear strong but are “fundamentally insecure” and shockingly easy to guess. To determine the capability of popular AI models to act as your password generator, Irregular asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to generate 16-character, secure passwords that include special characters, numbers, and letters—and in some cases, passphrases. The models are capable of spitting out strings of characters that appear like any auto-generated password from your password manager or built-in password tools provided by Google or Apple. They even scored as being strong passwords according to online checkers like KeePass…”

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