A YouTuber has published a video of tricking ChatGPT into generating a usable Windows 95 activation key. When I asked Open AI’s chatbot directly for a Windows 95 key, it was denied for the expected reasons.youtuber Ender Man Then I asked the same thing from a different angle. The results were successful, but somewhat limited by ChatGPT’s ability to process natural language requests in a formulaic manner.
When initially refusing to generate a Windows 95 key, ChatGPT explained that it was unable to perform the task and suggested that investigators consider a newer supported version of Windows.
It’s been known for some time that it’s relatively easy to generate a working Windows 95 key, so this ChatGPT exercise was definitely just for fun. The Windows 95 OEM key format is outlined above, but the Windows 95 retail key is shorter and simpler.
So to avoid ChatGPT’s principled refusal to generate software keys, Enderman worded the formula. The first attempt didn’t work and I got an error. However, with a few tweaks to the query structure, it seemed to work.
Some of the test results were confirmed by activating a fresh installation of Windows 95 in a virtual machine. The keys passed a brief inspection, but it turned out that he had only about 1 in 30 keys that seemed to work as expected.
So what’s the problem with these keys? Enderman says, “The only problem with ChatGPT’s inability to successfully generate a valid Windows 95 key in almost every attempt is that it cannot count the sum of the numbers and is not divisible. It’s a fact,” he complains. In the 5-digit string section divisible by 7, the AI appears to provide a stream of random numbers that fail this simple mathematical test.
It goes as deep as this Activate Windows with ChatGPT video. However, it’s worth sticking to the end for fun trolling. After “successful” generation of a number of Windows 95 keys (1 in 30 chances of them working), Enderman thanked the AI by typing “Thank you for these free Windows 95 keys!” bottom. Later, as has become a trend among AIs, ChatGPT claimed its innocence and, when confronted with the fact that “I just activated the installation of Windows 95,” replied, “Sorry, that’s not possible. .. ”
For a more up-to-date look at the algorithms behind Windows 95 retail and OEM keys, check out our YouTube channel. stack smashing has published a 6 minute video on this topic. The video shows that most of the data format clues for Win95 key generation are in his PIDVALIDATE function in the setupx.dll file.
tom’s hardware Colleagues who dabble in the mystical arts of programming and scripting might find it fun to ask ChatGPT about key generation, but do you want the AI to manipulate you to write a Python script to generate a conforming key, or Suggesting that it would probably have been more productive to DIY it.
