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PARTLY

As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly generate strong passwords for your business.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

2 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill needednone

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA purpose-built password manager is the safer alternative; its price is not provided in the available tool data.

If this goes wrong, an exposed or reused business password can give someone access to company systems and require account recovery and incident response.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the password settings or administrator documentation for each business service and record its current minimum length, permitted characters and any restrictions without copying an existing password.
    2. Open a reputable password manager or an approved local secure-random generation method on your work device, and set a different generated password for every account.
    3. Use the prompt in a chatbot to produce the local-generation instructions and security checklist, replacing only the bracketed platform and length requirements.
    4. Run the generation method locally rather than asking the chatbot to return the actual passwords, then save each result directly in the password manager.
    5. Compare each saved password against the service requirements and check the password manager for duplicate or previously used entries.
    6. Enable multi-factor authentication for each account, create separate user accounts where the service supports them, and remove access for people who no longer need it.
    7. Share access through the password manager's controlled sharing feature, then record the account owner and recovery route in the business's approved access register.

    Prompt

    Create a password-generation plan for a UK business. Do not ask me for, repeat or include any real passwords, usernames, account names, personal data or confidential information. Explain why passwords should be generated and stored in a reputable password manager rather than copied from a chatbot. Give me a short local-generation script or command using a cryptographically secure random source available on [Windows/macOS/Linux], if appropriate. The generated passwords must be unique, at least [minimum length] characters long, and use a suitable mix of letters, numbers and symbols unless the target service has different rules. Include a checklist for checking the service's password requirements, avoiding reuse, storing the password securely, sharing access without sending the password in ordinary email, enabling multi-factor authentication and recording who has access. Do not claim that a chatbot-generated password is guaranteed secure.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • A chatbot cannot guarantee that its password output came from a cryptographically secure random process.
  • A chatbot cannot protect a password that you paste into the conversation from logging, screen capture or later disclosure.
  • It cannot detect password reuse across your business accounts unless you provide access to an appropriate password-management system.
  • It cannot decide who should have access to each business account or remove access when a colleague leaves.
  • It cannot replace multi-factor authentication, recovery planning or an approved password manager.

What caps this at PARTLY: private data access, verification cost and stakes of error.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output1
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total7 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT generate a secure password?
It can generate a long, varied-looking password, but that does not prove cryptographically secure randomness or safe storage. Generate the actual password locally with a password manager or secure random tool instead, and do not paste it into a chatbot.
Is it safe to use AI to create business passwords?
It is suitable for explaining password requirements and writing a local-generation script, not for handling the real passwords. Store unique passwords in an approved password manager, enable multi-factor authentication and never include credentials in the chat.
What is the best way to create passwords for a small business?
Use a reputable password manager to generate and store a unique password for each account. Give people individual accounts where possible, share access through the manager rather than ordinary email, and remove access when it is no longer needed.
Can AI make passwords that meet a website's requirements?
It can turn the stated requirements into generation instructions, such as minimum length and permitted symbols. Check the current requirements on the service itself and generate the final password locally, because the chatbot cannot confirm that its output is safely random or has not been exposed.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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