u/Responsible_person_1

AI models don’t “run” your image file thats not how its works

AI models only process pixel data or latents. They never execute the file. A PNG/JPG is just image data your malware payload never runs.

Closed labs (OpenAI, Midjourney, Google, etc.) use heavily filtered, curated datasets. Malware signatures and anomalous files get stripped long before training. As for open models and fine-tunes are trained on already-cleaned public data or data the user deliberately chooses. The only machine that gets hit is the one dumb enough to download your file.

Even in a fantasy scenario where a few files slipped through, modern training runs use hundreds of millions to billions of images. A handful of malicious files are pure noise and change nothing about the model’s behavior or style knowledge.

Most models people are angry about are already trained. New files can’t rewrite existing weights.

it also completely fails against the things these people actually complain about (unauthorized training, style copying, big companies scraping). Style is learned as statistical patterns across massive datasets, not stored as individual files. Generation pipelines never “run” random art files from Twitter or bluesky,

also professional training environments are sandboxed and scanned precisely to prevent this kind of nonsense.

You’re more likely to infect yourself or catch a federal charge than hurt any AI system.

(person on bottom is a married woman btw)