I recently finished putting together a choose your own adventure type visual novel for a collaborative project in one of my college classes, and for i think four or five of the like 40 I think total assets, I used Photoshop's AI tool to change aspects of the irl photographs we took to make them fit better to the story. Just like changing a window into a wall or closing a door or adding claws to a picture of a hand, before going in by hand to smooth out the results and make them actually, like, good. Everything else, all the color grading, editing of the quality and such, blending things and removing blemishes, was all done by me. I also just went and hand painted several aspects cause I find the AI tool so frustrating. 

My question is, do I then list my game as using AI to create the graphics, or no? Im not going to make any money off this anyways.

Read the part of the AI disclosure question again, where it says "even if you hand-edited it".

https://itch.io/t/4309690/generative-ai-disclosure-tagging has some discussion about it, including this advice  https://itch.io/post/11423702 It’s just a tag, use your best judgment. If the output of Gen AI is something you put into your project, then tag it.

And to clarify, it is not a tag. But it can be filtered by the tag mechanic. You should not advertise your game as being ai free or the assets to be 100% gen ai free.

Think about the people who would use those ai tags. Is it important to appear in the result of no-ai or imporant to not appear there? My guess is, that people that use the no-ai tag for browsing games, would consider your game to contain gen ai. While the people browsing for ai-generated might not. Hilarious.

The ai tools in Photoshop and similar are problematic, because they are not always obvious as gen AI. It's not just a color filter, but it literally generates things. And it does not generate a complete image. Also the case of "gen ai edited" is not specifically covered in the AI disclosure, only the other way round.

I prefer the way Steam displays the info. They do so in text form. Where it would read that you created minor deatils with gen ai and polished them by hand. Itch currently displays no info at all. All the ai tags you see on game pages are manually added and not the result of the ai disclosure question.