With dozens of accounts spanning banking, shopping, streaming, and social media, along with constant warnings from cybersecurity experts about the dangers of reusing credentials, coming up with a fresh, complex password every time can feel almost impossible.
So it’s perhaps no surprise that some users are outsourcing the task to AI.
However, new research suggests people are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini to generate ‘strong’ passwords for them.AI systems are trained on vast amounts of datasets composed of public, openly accessible data, and with that they generate what appears to be complex sequence of characters for your password. Security experts warn that this approach may be misguided and could be putting your personal information at risk.
The research, from AI cybersecurity firm Irregular and verified by Sky News, found that all three major models – ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini – generated ‘highly predictable passwords’.
Why you shouldn’t use AI to generate passwords
“You should definitely not do that,” Irregular co-founder Dan Lahav told Sky News.
