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The no-ai tag is a mess. No one gets it. It is ill conceived and ill implemented. There was only recently added that additional line about generative ai usage and this is still confusing because of choice of words. They call it ai assitance and no one knows what that means. It means nothing. It means that there is at least one of the ai questions answered with yes. Graphics, sound, text, code.

If you do answer with no, your game gets a imaginary tag, that is not a tag. But can be filtered, as if it were a tag. Confusing? That's because it is. If you answer with yes, your game gets up to 5 imaginary tags that are not tags. One for each category and one general ai tag. And those tags are actually filters that apparantly have a different name, now that you can filter them.

AI Assistance

• No AI
• AI Assisted
• AI Graphics
• AI Audio
• AI Text
• AI Code

The the filter section is called ai assistance is ok. What is not ok, is that there is a subcategory called assistance. It makes people think that is some kind of different way of using ai in developing a game. But it's not. It's just the yes flag to any of the other 4. It should be named "any of the options" at that point.

And add to that all the developers that manually added a no-ai tag... It's a horrible user experience. Most people never read the public comments where some discussions might shed light on this.

Sorry for ranting. But you are a prime example, why I believe this to be ill implemented.

Anyway. Just ignore your indexing status and do whatever you would do. Chose your tags however you like and update your page however you like. No one told you about indexing status, so why should you care. And if you arbitrarily wait for indexing, it could just as well happen that your game gets temporarily delisted again if you change the page. So just ignore it. Itch's stance is, that you should do external promotion anyway, so they see indexing as optional and are not in a hurry.