In my opinion, being able to use ai art both for your game and title page really brings down the experience of the jam. It takes away creativity. I understand the use of ai chat bot, for that can add cool mechanics to a game. The argument that some people aren’t artistic and need ai, is just stupid.

Well, all the games will be voted on during the judging period, so if the game is bad it will end up low in the rankings anyway, so why limit the use of something that is only a tool? Some folks will surely make a good use of it, while some others don't and that's normal, especially with new tools.

Those who make art themselves do it after real hours of hard work with passion. For my 3D game in this game jam, I created most of the 3D models, especially two robots and machines, animation etc. myself in Blender after working for several hours as I am a light user of Blender. It took more time than setting the scene and event sheet in GDevelop. A couple of months ago, this would have taken a couple of weeks to make 3D models in Blender.  So I understand the pain and passion of an artist who makes art by themselves in 2D and 3D. On the other hand, for the YouTube Playables Challenge, I only generated the background picture for my 2D game from gemini.com.  I did not crop the picture, though I could do it easily as the "AI mark" is at the bottom right side of the image in the case of gemini.com. All the best.