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ZDNET's key takeaways
AI chatbots aren't reliable security tools.
AI-generated passwords may be predictable and easy to crack.
Use trusted password generators for stronger, unique passwords.
The last thing you want is for your password to be predictable.
Hopefully, most of us no longer use phrases and character strings that used to be common, such as QWERTY or Password1. Many online services now require users to use complex combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols, and may even check for data breaches and data dumps to make sure you're not reusing the same password across multiple services.
Coming up with these combinations can be an annoying and time-consuming process, and it may seem like asking popular AI chatbots and models such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to generate them for you is a sensible and secure alternative -- but new research into the true 'randomness' of their answers brings this into question.
AI-suggested passwords can fall into patterns
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