Honestly, you might have lost your time reading it, there doesn't seem to be a definitive answer on how much AI needs to be used to be disclosed.
I totally agree with your statement, I don't think people should be afraid of using AI to assist. There is currently no nuance between entirely wrote with AI without human involvement and assisting with code. Not in the guidelines at least.
To me, it isn't much different from how i used to use StackOverflow.
My understanding of the description of this tag is: "If you have used AI for anything code related and you use that database again (that database being your own brain, or the code you have written after looking at AI output EVER), then you must check yes to AI generated.
What this means to me is, according to itch, AI owns all your code if you have ever used AI.
I know this is not the intent, but... if people wish to be honest it's the boat they land in. I am far more afraid of this kind of thinking, and more specifically it becoming law, than I am of AI itself.
Further reading in the Ai disclosure community forum suggests that the way you are describing having used generative Ai to assist in your coding does not fall under what the tag is meant to imply. I don’t know how to link exactly to it via my phone, but the comment thread from about a year ago between Nikkoan Games and Leafo is what I’m referring to. I can try to send you a link to it directly when I am home later.
I don't know how to link to a specific post in the thread, but this user only has a few posts so you can find it that way pretty easily.
https://itch.io/profile/nikkoin
Some other reading on the same thread has me believing that the intent was that the tag applies to assets, not games. Games are not required to use the tag (which... is confusing as the tag is present, and a choice is required when making a game page...) and that generative AI use in developing code (far beyond the scope of what you described having used it for) is not what the tag is intended for. I think you could turn your project listing back to no AI and remain well within the intent of the admins.
