Another question is: What is point of participating in a jam that would allow this as well? It's not 'your' work per say. It's something where the sources have been plundered from a global network of data without permission and used to generate some end result that may or may not be what was intended.
- What was gained? Nothing.
- What was learned? Nothing.
- Are you any better as an artist or a coder after this? No.
This is a cheat used to 'generate' an end result to give you some advantage while the real workers struggle, fight and enjoy sleepless evening to put their damndest and best into their creations. Maybe they look less impressive, but the creators come out stronger, smarter, faster, more effective, even if it is just a little piece at a time. This AI use is not about working and improving oneself to becoming better. It is about accomplishing absolutely nothing.
Not only do I see issues with claiming whose 'work' this is (which it is not), but I have ethical issues about the source of the 'work'. Inspiration is one thing. Taking the first three bass notes from an established music track because it got you thinking, then going off with it and create an entire different track is still a creation of yours. Helping you get started is one thing, but something that does all the work accomplishes nothing in the end. If you created your own version of pacman from the ground up after watching how the arcade version works, you created it. You had to figure out the source code, including player movements, wall restrictions, pickup up pills and fruits, dealing with the ghosts, draw the pixels on the screen, make the sound effects. You have learned and mastered some form of game-making ability and you should be proud of that! If you slapped the arcade code and resource file on itch and claimed it was our own, you have learned and gained nothing from this, and frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself. In effect, this is what you did if you used AI for this: You slapped the arcade code and resource file on itch, plain and simple.
masterofgiraffe is spot on. Even the giraffes would agree with such reasoning!