Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate your passwords is a bad idea. It’s likely to give that password to a criminal who can then use it in a dictionary attack—which is when an attacker runs through a prepared list of likely passwords (words, phrases, patterns) with automated tools until one of them works, instead of trying every possible combination.
AI cybersecurity firm Irregular tested ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and found that the passwords they generate are “highly predictable,” and not truly random. When they tested Claude, 50 prompts produced just 23 unique passwords. One string appeared 10 times, while many others shared the same structure.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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