system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do "forgot my password" dialogs only allow you to change your password, not tell you what your current one is?

**EDIT:**  I got temporarily banned from this sub for calling someone a jerk here, which was a violation of the "no affirmative defense" rule for responding to aggression with aggression, so I won't be able to respond to any of your answers.
gpt
If they're doing things right, they don't know your current password. When you set a password they put it through a "hashing" function and store the result. When you try to log in again, they put the password you entered through the same function and check if the result matches the one they have stored.