TL;DR: Yeah, from all that we know, it should be fine to use.
More info:
- 2 days ago windows defender started marking various ai models as threats
- no other antivirus program sees a threat there (checked via virustotal.com)
- there was no change to the models. Those models have been uploaded and used for months and come from their official sources on huggingface
- this is not only happening for the standalone, but also normal InvokeAI, auto1111 and just random vaes
Our best guess is: Windows Defender has to use a quick and imprecise method to check all the files on your system without slowing it down. So it most likely mistakes those official models for shadier ones.
Sooo, we just have to wait for Microsoft to fix that. :/ But I'll also check how to add exceptions to the Windows Defender, so it doesn't eat your models and breaks InvokeAI. Or breaks my InvokeAi. :/ I couldn't test the newest patch (which doesn't change the models) because Defender keeps deleting my models after I copied them somewhere else.