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submitted 22 hours ago by fox@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

The way LLMs work is by approaching the most "average" response given any particular input. It's why everything written by an LLM looks similar and always has the same voice.

Anyways, shockingly, the Machine That Generates the Average Output is bad at unique passwords.

Of the 50 returned, only 30 were unique (20 duplicates, 18 of which were the exact same string), and the vast majority started and ended with the same characters.

Imagine that an LLM tries to fit its outputs into a bell curve of potential responses, with each character in the output aimed to be as close to the middle as feasible (with a small randomization factor so it's not always the exact same). A good password's bell curve ought to be a completely flat graph where any character is just as likely to be chosen as any other character.

Use a password manager.

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[-] rattlethatlock42@hexbear.net 40 points 22 hours ago

People ask AI for passwords? Bloody hell.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 12 points 20 hours ago

monke-beepboop Here I am blindly smashing buttons until it passes the requirements.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 8 points 19 hours ago

For 10 years my paypal password was sliding my finger over parts of 3 rows of the keyboard. I think I've changed it.

this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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