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Why does everything have to be LLM, like why cant things sometimes just be algorithmically generated like my AI-free password manager does?
I wonder if there's AI-powered password managers on the market now lol. If so and if customers, I would mirror Zuck's snide "thuh dumb fucks" setiment when people trusted him
ZXCVBN algorithm has never failed me. I can generate passwords that would take 1 quadrillion guesses/second hackers over 90 million years (testing 1 quad/sec) on the reg
I remember the days before hardware random number generators, when pseudo random number generators caused fuck ups by not actually being random. Now people are re-inventing the stupid way of doing it with AI.
It blows my mind hackers still found ways in with just that one fuckup
It's worse than just using a new tool though. By definition LLMs use the statistically most likely option (with minor variation for flavor). People are literally asking a statistics bot what password can I use that is the most likely?
I was gonna say that. They gonna give you a recycled pattern
I mean, like, what is an effective/"good" password if not an unrecycled non-pattern??
That's a good point: it's not just that LLMs fail to give you an optimal password, it's that they're inherently designed to give you a pessimal one.
There's AI-powered everything now for no reason other than because when they slap those two letters on it, their stocks go up. A lot of times there's not even any AI involved.
I remember CES 2022 when derb8uer found these "AI PC cases" and when he asked about why, they said "because you can put an AI PC in it". And that's when I knew it was a bubble. Because that's the kind of shit that happened with dotcom. Companies slapping "dotcom" on their names and their stocks would skyrocket for no reason.
Stox go brrrrr
But…but Magic Box™
I always say I'm not interested in asking an LLM to add 2 + 2 for me. Of course my managers are always pushing us to use LLMs and coworkers keep suggesting we replace efficient, testable, and consistent processes with AI. If you're going to use it at least think of scenarios that are hard to code for and it would take you at least 10 min to solve.
which dumbass lets LLMs generate their passwords?
I just set my password to hunter2, no one will ever figure it out.
What is that? All I see is *******.
Let me test that
JsfJhdYhb57'j4++€€djF
Shit 😩
Don't put a quote mark in your password! I learned the hard way with password'drop table users;'
/S
Wait, was this because you too had a student named "Robert'); DROP TABLE users;--"?
An oldie but a goodie
What do you mean. Why would it be a problem that my password is the most statistically likely sequence of characters in the world? And that the password is stored in plaintext in a chat log? And used for training LLMs on password conversations?
Me! Me! Me!
dumbass
That was uncalled for 😞
If someone I knew told me they asked an LLM to generate their password, I would no longer talk to that person.
Why would anyone... Who the fuck is using glorified autocomplete to generate a random unique password?
Anyone that stupid deserves the breach and any company that integrates that moronic idea deserves the blowback.
why. dafuq. would someone use an llm to make a password.
Because the techbros are pushing AI (really LLMs, but that is too many letters) for everything to justify their insane stock valuations
AI generated password
... I'm sorry, what just happened? I think I had a mini aneurysm. Let me read that ag.....
In all seriousness, WTAF is wrong with people? What removed Baphomet wannabe came up with that negative IQ idea? SERIOUSLY... WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE. ARGH!
Here I am giving security training to my coworkers and then I have to read this. This is like me spending a life long sifting through all my garbage to make sure everything is nicely separated for recycling, using the bike to go anywhere, to make sure my carbon footprint is as small as possible and over flies Taylor Swift in her private jet undoing my life's work in a single fucking trip.
Seriously this gives me a headache
I watched someone in a YouTube video ask ChatGPT to add up some numbers for them, despite having a calculator on their phone. The sheer laziness at the expense of someone else's energy was impressive. And don't even get me started on the accuracy.
AI generated password? What kind of brain rot idea is that, god damn. Do these people need to ask AI to breathe for them?
I can also generate a password for them while running 50 toasters and flushing the toilet a bunch if they want.
My brother you can literally slam your face on the keyboard to get a password. Why would you ask an llm' to do it for you?
I'm pretty sure there's an algorithm somewhere to solve for face to keyboard password generation.
Let me ask ~~ChatGPT~~ Claude
It takes a five line Python script to generate a secure password. But no, let's waste a gigantic amount of energy to have a slop machine do it very badly.
Bet I can do it in less
import random
password_length=10
letters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-&@$?!*#%"
print(''.join(random.sample(letters+letters+letters.upper()+letters.upper(), password_length)))
If you inline password_length and letters, you can bring it down to 2 lines
Even less lines if you're ok with it generating the same secure password every time
LLMs are predictive text machines. Focus on "predictive". Of course they will not output random text.
Note: not fully deterministic though - they need (pseudo)randomness at few critical points to be good
"here's what to use instead"
...the same thing we always have been? Keepass or other password managers with randomly generated passwords?
if only there existed a better way to generate passwords
Wait ... Wat? Why would you even...
Just noticing: there's 0 evidence in article that anyone is doing this. I just don't buy that this is happening enough to matter. Interesting as interpretability research at best
There's actually lots of evidence of people using AI to generate GUIDs that are infact not globally unique.
How did we manage to move almost completely away from Pseudo-random password generation, only to come straight back to it via LLMs again.
People will really just shove these things into anything like they're a bloody panacea, when really they're just extremely well-trained parrots.
Is there a link to the actual study?