I think AI can be helpful (sometimes) as a tool for indie devs, for example I used eleven labs for the Knights Delivery Service which advertises as AI text to speech for my game, If I didnt I would have had to pay over $300 for the minimal voice lines my game has. Of course I hate when people just 1 prompt games and dont care about the quality of the game they ship. But in the indie dev community AI like text to speech will help devs polish games without a huge budget/help us compete with bigger studios.
Some thoughts: I do think in MOST cases and Game Jams AI needs to be avoided as you cant expect to hit quality for a game, but sadly we will see this exponentially increase as AI advances. But I would also agree seeing these games where people just push a button sucks and is always a waste of time when I go to play it.
Just wanted to show people that in the cases of text so speech advancing and not sounding so robotic like this can be helpful. So if we limit AI please keep it to art/asset generation/game logic/code for future jams.