Google May Use AI To Replace Hacked Passwords

Ars Technica reports:

Google’s Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and storing a better replacement. Google’s preliminary copy suggests it’s an “AI innovation,” though exactly how is unclear.

Chrome already has a feature that warns users if the passwords they enter have been identified in a breach and will prompt them to change it.

As noted by Windows Report, the change is that now Google will offer to change it for you on the spot rather than simply prompting you to handle that elsewhere. The password is automatically saved in Google’s Password Manager and “is encrypted and never seen by anyone,” the settings page claims.

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Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to replace compromised passwords | Rather than just warn you, Chrome will guide you to making a better password.

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