{"id":188475,"date":"2026-02-18T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/change-your-password-immediately-if-ai-created-it-cybersecurity-experts-warn\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:15:08","slug":"change-your-password-immediately-if-ai-created-it-cybersecurity-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/change-your-password-immediately-if-ai-created-it-cybersecurity-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Change your password immediately if AI created it, cybersecurity experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Change your password immediately if AI created it, cybersecurity experts warn<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/technology\/news\/ai-password-generator-chatgpt-gemini-claude-risk-715701-20260218<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-18 08:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.unilad.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: <\/a><\/p>\n

Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. People are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for day-to-day tasks, including creating passwords, but what feels like a clever shortcut could actually put your security at risk.Most of us know the frustration. You\u2019re signing up for a new service or updating an old login, staring at a blank password field while your mind goes blank.The requirements soon pile up: a mix of upper and lowercase letters, a minimum character count, numbers, special symbol… and, of course, it has to be completely unique.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\u2019s 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\u2019s ChatGPT, Anthropic\u2019s Claude, and Google\u2019s Gemini to generate \u2018strong\u2019 passwords for them.People are turning to AI for help generating new passwords (Getty Stock Image)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 \u2018highly predictable passwords\u2019.Why you shouldn’t use AI to generate passwords\u201cYou should definitely not do that,\u201d Irregular co-founder Dan Lahav told Sky News.\u201cAnd if you\u2019ve done that, you should change your password immediately. And we don\u2019t think it\u2019s known enough that this is a problem.\u201dOne of the reasons behind the warning is that predictable patterns threaten good cybersecurity because it means cybercriminals can use automated tools to help guess passwords.While it may be tempting and convenient, using AI to generate passwords can be harmful and put your data at risk (Getty Stock Image)As a result of large language models (LLMs) generating results based on patterns in their training data, as opposed to generating passwords randomly, they are not creating strong password options. Instead, it just looks like a strong password, but one that could be highly predictable.While AI can generate those passwords that look complicated, they should not be used as password managers.The risk of AI-generated passwordsShockingly, many AI-generated passwords are visible to the naked eye, whereas others just need mathematical analysis to reveal just how unsafe they are.When Irregular used Claude AI to generate a sample of 50 passwords, only 23 unique ones were produced.One password – K9#mPx$vL2nQ8wR – was used 10 times.Others included K9#mP2$vL5nQ8@xR, K9$mP2vL#nX5qR@j and K9$mPx2vL#nQ8wFs.You should change your password if AI created it (Getty Stock Image)When Sky used Claude to check this research, the first password it produced was K9#mPx@4vLp2Qn8R. ChatGPT and Gemini were \u2018slightly less regular\u2019 with the results they gave, but the results were still \u2018repeated passwords\u2019.These passwords also passed tests using online password checking tools, with the results claiming that the passwords were \u2018extremely strong\u2019.”Our best assessment is that currently, if you’re using LLMs to generate your passwords, even old computers can crack them in a relatively short amount of time,” Lahav warned.The experts said you should pick a long phrase you\u2019ll remember, and avoid using AI to find one.A Google spokesperson told Sky: “LLMs are not built for the purpose of generating new passwords, unlike tools like Google Password Manager, which creates and stores passwords safely.”We also continue to encourage users to move away from passwords and adopt passkeys, which are easier and safer to use.”UNILAD has contacted OpenAI and Anthropic for comment.
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Change your password immediately if AI created it, cybersecurity experts warn https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/technology\/news\/ai-password-generator-chatgpt-gemini-claude-risk-715701-20260218 Publish Date: 2026-02-18…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resizer.ladbiblegroup.com\/ogimage\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt0bc3c141adc87da2\/6995ab18c4557a0008bdba90\/change-password-immediately-ai-created.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,20,24],"class_list":["post-188475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188477,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188475\/revisions\/188477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}