[away_throw]

It's highly unlikely you are going to get banned on GTA even with cheats. The anti-cheat is a joke. The game is filled to the brim with cheaters. If me and my friends play, we play with cheats just to protect ourselves from other cheaters.

[half-kh-hacker]

Game cheat dev here: Just to provide some context, the GTA Online client is woefully horrible at doing client-side validation on the packets it receives from other peers. (there isn't an authoritative server)

This means that anyone in your session can send you a weirdly-formed packet to crash your game. Most cheats have protections against this by just doing Rockstar's job and adding better validation around packet interpretation routines.

Using "cheats just to protect [your]selves" actually makes a lot of sense.