I tend to use a fair bit of AI in building scripts and other things cause it's just faster than me at typing :). Can you clarify what you mean by strongly discourage it? Does that mean it impacts my chance of winning if I use AI? 

Your game is voted on by other jammers, and we ask that you tell people you have used ai. That's the only effect it will have on your score.

We discourage it for a few reasons:

• The larger models are trained on copyrighted code and images, which can have legal repercussions since generative AI can and will produce near identical data from its training set. This is such a major issue that the companies that produce the models are seeking exemptions from existing copyright law.
• This is a game creation competition, and a friendly one at that. There are no prizes, this is a fun event that challenges your creativity and game-making ability. Your creativity and game-making ability, not an AI's. What's the point if an AI is doing half of it anyway?
• There are other practical issues with generated art, but it sounds like that's not what you want to use.
• Also, typing speed is not a blocker for most game development 😉

At the end of the day, we can't police it. It's up to you, but like I said you should clarify that you have used AI if you do.