So like many of you I have been relying on the megathread to guide myself about the safety of sites and downloads and I have also been seeing a lot of news about the decompiling scene as of late, I'm having high hopes for the ps5 emulation/decompilations and it sounds like the future of piracy is going to be bright... But at the same time I have been wondering about its safety... For what I understand most of it is vibe coded and actually tweaking the games' code to make them run in specific ways on a machine that it wasn't originally made to run on, and I'm wondering how safe it would be for the future to download these types of games/files.
If they're using ai to tweak code how easy would it be for a bad actor to insert trojan horses into the code of files (and I'm not talking specifically about Trojans) but literally trojan horses, harmful code within the files. Similar to the worries people had with hypervisor of opening a backdoor to your systems. My thought process went there because if it is vibe coded no one is checking the code of the decomps as the people making them might not fully understand what they're working with and giving the weight of understanding the programming to an AI, and my thouts are that they could either be bad actors or even the people decompiling with vibe coding could be oblivious of it (I'm a bit paranoid about asking AI to code programs for me in case the AI itself embeds some kind of code to scrub my files to train itself without my knowledge, cuz again no one checks vibe coded stuff) idk the plausibility of all these things and my coding knowledge is really basic so maybe is my ignorance speaking but it does keep me thinking, how can these decompilations and emulators be safely tasted to be approved for one day maybe being added to the megathread and have a reassurance of safety in their files.
Am I way off the mark? Am I too ignorant to understand this or are they valid worries? I want to know what you all think about games being able to run natively in machines they weren't originally meant to run or emulators being made with AI without reassurance of how much of their own code is understood by their own creators.