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AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and over (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 5 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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The most random number is 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0B6hoOE9uo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260219-ai-generates-the-same-random-passwords-over-and-over - podcast

time: 5 min 32 sec

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[-] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 59 points 5 months ago

I dont need a 5 minute podcast to explain the fact that LLMs are literally selecting the statistically most common answers, because thats literally what an LLM is

Thats like being surprised that the top 5 correct answers on family feud were the most commonly picked answers from the poll.

Dawg... thats literally how it works lol.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

“Show me… the same combination on my luggage!”

[-] LadyMeow 7 points 5 months ago

1234!

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago

Train your chatbot on TV Tropes, and the password will always be swordfish.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago

What dipshit says, "ChatGPT, give me a strong password."

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

The kind of person who cannot tell the difference between blindly guessing words and conscious thought.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

potentially a common one, but we'll only know after password leak from somewhere

[-] NextElephant9@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

I thought we all agreed that 4 was the random number.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Yes. Determined by fair dice roll.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I just tried on copilot and it gave me 7.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I was fucking around the other day trying to get sha256 hashes.

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 5 months ago

GPT-4o-mini, Phi-4, Gemini 2.0 [flash??]

Antique

[-] anise@quokk.au 14 points 5 months ago

surely a newer statistics machine will correctly generate a statistically unlikely password. These Models Will Get Better. This Will Get Fixed.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

just 100 more billion bro please bro just 100 more billion bro, we'll solve statistics bro you'll see bro just 100 more billion bro

(and then in a year it'll be 500b...)

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 5 months ago

no shi, absolutely nobody is using LLMs to generate passwords

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago

You have a level of faith in humanity that is completely unwarranted.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Your mum is an antique.

[-] Hexarei@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

I gave my agents a skill that has them cat from /dev/urandom (which is this corralled into text characters) any time they need to generate passwords for something. Even then I have only ever had one need it like twice.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

jeeves would certainly approve

spoilerjeeves, played by young stephen fry, uses deadpan on wooster: “very good sir”, says jeeves and looks jeevesly.

[-] SpaceGameJunkie@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

Always upvote a Jeeves and Wooster reference.

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