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Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design (www.irregular.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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LLM-generated passwords (generated directly by the LLM, rather than by an agent using a tool) appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure, because LLMs are designed to predict tokens – the opposite of securely and uniformly sampling random characters.

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Getting away from more direct requests I can absolutely imagine AI offering passwords/suggestions as part of a coding session. Including "temp" passwords that look secure so "why bother changing it?".