Well, honestly this whole AI ethical concerns is a huge loss.
It's a technology, like many of the ones that come to aid us and not get on the way, disrupt the market and all that.
During a game jam, we are always incentivized to try new tech, new algorithms, because... It's a jam, and it's indie work, and that's how we can compete with the AAA studios, doing something different.
It's like uber disrupting the taxi sector, artists will adapt and USE the AI technology to their benefit, the ones who fear it will be left behind.
So, it's very, very bad to forbid people to try new tech during a Jam.
Politely, I'd like to state that the worst part of it is not your position about the ethical part of AI, that I genuinely respect. but the fact that at the beginning of the jam, some rules were set, then DURING THE JAM those rules changed.
Either the jam should have been cancelled and another should have been created with new rules, or the rules should have been kept the same.
Changing the rules of the game during the game is... unfair.