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A typical jam is an event where you create a game under restrictions. Using AI would trivialize most of those restrictions.

I copied a few random quotes from rules of actual jams, telling about their AI restrictions. And not all of them forbid AI. All jams have different rules.

Use of generative AI is not allowed! We want to see what YOU can create in the allotted time, not what AI can create for you!

 AI-assisted coding (autocomplete tools) is allowed. No copy-pasting large amounts of AI-generated code. No AI-generated art or music.

AI-generated assets are allowed, if you disclose their use on the game's project page. This applies even if these originally AI-generated assets are later edited by you.

Using AI as an assistive tool is OK, BUT games might be disqualified if: most/all of the game is obviously generated, entire game art assets are obviously generated, or the game audio is obviously generated.

No AI-generated art in-game, or the project page. You may use AI in design or code, but assets must be human-made. Tools that build the entire game from promps are also not allowed.

So you see, the tools of the trade, code assist done with ai, are usually not forbidden. But a jam is a contest of art and using gen ai defeats the purpose. It is not a contest of who can operate the prompt best.

Also, most jams have the implicit rule, that since you would make the game for the jam, you actually cannot submit it to other such jams. It usually is also not quite possible to conform to different jam restrictions at once. Like, make the game in a week for the jam and include topics a, b and c.