--- title: "AI Roundup: Guessing passwords, conjuring images out of peoples’ minds, and… writing fortune cookies? - The Hustle" description: The latest in AI’s awesome and outright terrifying climb toward world domination. image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/GIFs/1239608874-httpsthe-hustle.hubspot.comhubfsDaily20Newsletter20ImagesApril2012202023AI.webp --- # AI Roundup: Guessing passwords, conjuring images out of peoples’ minds, and… writing fortune cookies? ![Ben Berkley](https://53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/53/assets/hubspot.com/web-team/WBZ/HubSpot%20Media/Blog%202021/Images/Nav/Optimized/TheHustle_Icon_Dark.svg) [Ben Berkley](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/ben-berkley) Published: April 13, 2023 Updated: October 11, 2023 No mere human can keep up with the torrent of intriguing/terrifying daily AI news, but we’ll try anyway — at least until we’re rendered obsolete by the machines… ![fortune cookie](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/GIFs/1239608874-httpsthe-hustle.hubspot.comhubfsDaily20Newsletter20ImagesApril2012202023AI.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1239608874-httpsthe-hustle.hubspot.comhubfsDaily20Newsletter20ImagesApril2012202023AI.webp) *** **AI can probably crack your password — and faster than you think** For every lovely, life-affirming application of AI, there’s at least one adversarial, uh-oh-inducing one. This one’s the latter. Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes put an AI-powered password-cracking tool called PassGAN [to the test](https://www.androidauthority.com/ai-password-cracking-3310709/) against 15m+ passwords. - It cracked 51% of them in under a minute. - By month’s end, it had worked out 81% of the list. - Uh-oh. Before you reset every password you’ve ever had, remember that usage of PassGAN isn’t widespread — and could also be used to generate crack-proof passwords. Still, Home Security Heroes recommends stronger passwords with 15+ characters that avoid patterns like “1234.” *** **AI can kinda see what your brain sees?** A team at Osaka University used a deep-learning AI model called Stable Diffusion (SD) to [analyze brain scans](https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/4/7/could-ai-read-minds-somedayjapanese-breakthrough-sparks-debate) after people were shown images inside an MRI machine. The AI was asked to “translate” the subjects’ brain activity into a readable format. - That it did; SD generated faithful reproductions of the original images. - Also uh-oh. Per the Osaka team, this isn’t “mind reading” — it merely means AI can reproduce images a person has viewed. Which ain’t nothing, according to every tightly clenched muscle in our bodies. Practical applications are minimal today, but SD research (and subsequent ethics debates) will continue. *** **AI brings a creative crisis to the fortune cookie industry** Every year, ~3B fortune cookies are made globally. Most of them house a message penned by a real-life human. A startup called OpenFortune Inc. may jettison that human touch, using ChatGPT to generate new messages at rates no copywriter could match. Per *The Wall Street Journal*, a [divide](https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-chatgpt-writing-messages-in-fortune-cookies-a8a0ea61) is forming in the fortune biz between accepting AI’s time- and cost-saving ways, and holding true to self-written tradition. … But who provides wisdom for the wisdom makers? 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