Activating Windows without a key is already super fucking easy
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
20 points (100.0% liked)
technology
23189 readers
54 users here now
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020
- Ways to run Microsoft/Adobe and more on Linux
- The Ultimate FOSS Guide For Android
- Great libre software on Windows
- Hey you, the lib still using Chrome. Read this post!
Rules:
- 1. Obviously abide by the sitewide code of conduct. Bigotry will be met with an immediate ban
- 2. This community is about technology. Offtopic is permitted as long as it is kept in the comment sections
- 3. Although this is not /c/libre, FOSS related posting is tolerated, and even welcome in the case of effort posts
- 4. We believe technology should be liberating. As such, avoid promoting proprietary and/or bourgeois technology
- 5. Explanatory posts to correct the potential mistakes a comrade made in a post of their own are allowed, as long as they remain respectful
- 6. No crypto (Bitcoin, NFT, etc.) speculation, unless it is purely informative and not too cringe
- 7. Absolutely no tech bro shit. If you have a good opinion of Silicon Valley billionaires please manifest yourself so we can ban you.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Yeah I used a powershell script to activate mine.
I'm so sad that they fixed it. It can still generate Borderlands 2 Shift codes, though.
Say what??? Like do the shift codes work?
Oh I don't know but it did generate them. If you try to get it to do Windows keys it just tells you it can't.
Is it generating or just reposting codes already on the internet somewhere?
Generating. In theory, it has some way to find patterns in how legitimate Windows keys are generated, and it's reproducing those patterns even without knowing what the algorithm that produced them is actually doing. That means it takes a bunch of tries before you get one right because they are only educated guesses. Pretty cool that it can do that though and I wonder what else it can try to do.
is it confirmed that they fixed this lmao
yea i tried asking chatgpt 
how many iterations did you try, or did it not work at all
it doesnt reply at all. says it wont do anything illegal.
Can confirm they patched it and I tried a few different methods. That being said, with the way all this stuff works I can see 2 cases:
- They just hard coded it to shut down whenever the user prompts it with some combination of "Windows" and "Keys", in which case Chat GPT can still be exploited in similar ways for a ton of other fun piracy uses.
- They made it "intelligently" detect when the user was trying to trick it, which is what it (nominally) has always tried to do, so there's still a billion ways to get it to give away sensitive info because AI don't real.