Why did you lie on the AI disclosure then?
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Well theres a bunch of reasons:
first Ive seen a lot of AI hate in gaming communities mainly because of people with zero knowledge and skills for game design creating garbage games using AI. This probably makes players start hating games if theres even something in it that an AI touched. This is really disheartening because I believe you can even surpass a human team even as a solo dev if you combine real human skills with AI assisting you, and by checking that option on the AI disclosure I feel like Im being put in that same big basket of "AI slop" devs.
Plus, theres the search filter that itchio uses to prevent people from seeing games made with AI (if I understood it correctly?), which ends up taking away the opportunity for someone to discover a game they might actually like. And finally having the term "AI-generated" used in the itchio AI disclosure and not having an "AI-assisted" option really hurts. Seriously when you have an environment with this combination of factors, you are basically asking devs to lie on the AI disclosure because thats the only way to still reach most people and let them see and decide for themselves if my game is worth playing or not instead of letting prejudice decide that. Sorry for the long text lol
AI is not hidden by default, people click to hide it when they don't want to see it. It's not even required to add a disclosure on game pages right now, so you went out of your way to lie as opposed to omitting it. When you do this we get a ton of user reports on your page for being in the wrong category and we have to spend time moderating it. Our rules for indexing generally very straight forward, don't lie on your categorization. All you've communicated here is that you have no respect for the platform or the people searching for games. So for that reason we consider you opting out of being eligible for indexing.