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@rmondello If you want randomness, ask an LLM for facts. If you want facts, ask an LLM for randomness.

@rmondello And you expected different results from the tall-poppy-societal-enforcement-by-algorithm, technology of mean reversion?

@rmondello @siracusa the urge of people to use LLMs is inversely proportional to its ability to help with the task they want to use it for

(Thomas’ Law of LLM Quixotism)

@rmondello Well, they *look* random.

@rmondello Some time ago I asked chatgpt to give me a random number. It said 42. Tried again under another account, with no account, in a different machine, a friend tried too. Always 42.

@rmondello This is why I use @Izt^04-X5SrKC#gFoQH for all my passwords: it's 20 characters long, has letters, numbers, and special characters, and doesn't contain any words that appear in the dictionary.

@rmondello but asking ChatGPT to generate a python script to make a secure password seems like it does a pretty good job:

```
import secrets
import string

def generate_password(length=16):
if length < 12:
raise ValueError("Password length should be at least 12 characters.")

# Character sets
lowercase = string.ascii_lowercase
uppercase = string.ascii_uppercase
digits = string.digits
special = "!@#$%^&*()-_=+[]{}|;:,.<>?/"

# Ensure at least one character from each set
password = [
secrets.choice(lowercase),
secrets.choice(uppercase),
secrets.choice(digits),
secrets.choice(special)
]

# Fill the rest with random characters
all_chars = lowercase + uppercase + digits + special
password += [secrets.choice(all_chars) for _ in range(length - 4)]

# Shuffle the password securely
secrets.SystemRandom().shuffle(password)

return ''.join(password)

if __name__ == "__main__":
print("Generated Password:", generate_password())
```

@rmondello In the future all passwords will be `admin` or `123456`. Get on board or get left behind!

@rmondello I just use gr0kisthistrue as my password everywhere now, no issues so far