LLMs are bad at generating passwords:

There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily:

• All of the passwords start with a letter, usually uppercase G, almost always followed by the digit 7.
• Character choices are highly uneven ­ for example, L , 9, m, 2, $ and # appeared in all 50 passwords, but 5 and @ only appeared in one password each, and most of the letters in the alphabet never appeared at all.
• There are no repeating characters within any password. Probabilistically, this would be very unlikely if the passwords were truly random ­ but Claude preferred to avoid repeating characters, possibly because it “looks like it’s less random”.
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