I loved the game.

I understand the use that was made did not in the least affect the final product.

I don't think they should have a disclaimer on Steam.

I think they screwed up big time if the indie game awards rules could have been interpreted as requiring no use of AI at any stage in production.

Also, I dont really understand the point of saying it afterwards and I fear that may in itself mean that they are promoting the use of AI in game dev.

What I think is very good is that people are (over?)reacting like this: I would like to have devs perceiving the use of AI as fucking poison.