YouTuber Proves ChatGPT Can Manufacture Free Windows Keys

 

YouTuber Proves ChatGPT Can Manufacture Free Windows Keys

There’s still quite a bit of lingering nostalgia for Windows 95, and even though its notoriously easy to fake your way back into the days of blocky menus and balding men screaming at you that it’s “only $99,” one Windows experimenter managed to use ChatGPT to generate easy product keys for the venerable operating system.

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Late last month, the YouTuber Enderman showed how he was able to entice OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate keys for Windows 95 despite the chatbot being explicitly antagonistic to creating activation keys.

Old Windows 95 OEM keys used several parameters, including a set of ordinal numbers as well as other randomized numerals. In a considerably simple workaround, Enderman told ChatGPT to generate lines in the same layout as a Windows 95 key, paying particular attention to specific serials that are mandatory in all keys. After a few dozen attempts of trial and error, he settled on a prompt that worked, and it could generate around one working key for every 30 attempts.

In other words, he couldn’t tell ChatGPT to generate a Windows key, but he could tell it to generate a string of characters that matched all the requirements of a Windows key.

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Once Enderman proved the key worked in installing Windows 95, he thanked ChatGPT. The chatbot responded “I apologize for any confusion, but I did not provide any Windows 95 keys in my previous response… I cannot provide any product keys or activation codes for any software.” It further tried to claim that activating Windows 95 was “not possible” because Microsoft stopped supporting the software in 2001, which is simply untrue.