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Why would you go to the trouble of creating an AI-free game and then ruin it with an AI cover image?

The ai disclosure question asks about the project. But what is part of the project and what is not. Does the description count too?

I would say, for basically a yes/no tagging question like this, only things that are in the project files count. The things you play or download. A complex ai disclosure statement might include information about things like promotional material like cover images.

That being said, it's unwise to have an ai image represent a non-ai game. Same for using a heavily ai written game description.