Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has engrossed the mainstream culture, expanded AI's creative user base, and catalyzed economic, legal, and aesthetic issues that stir a lively public debate. Unsurprisingly, GenAI tools proliferate kitsch in the hands of amateurs and hobbyists, but various shortcomings also induce kitsch into a more ambitious, professional artists' production with GenAI. I explore them in this paper. Following the introductory outline of digital kitsch and AI art, I review GenAI artworks that manifest five interrelated types of kitsch-engendering expressive flaws: the superficial foregrounding or faulty circumvention of generative models' formal signatures, the feeble critique of AI, the mimetics, and the unacknowledged poetic similarities, all marked by an overreliance on AI as a cultural signifier. I discuss the normalization of these blunders through GenAI art's good standing within the art world and keen relationship with the AI industry, which contributes to the adulteration of AI discourse and the possible corruption of artistic literacy. In conclusion, I emphasize that recognizing different facets of artists' uncritical embrace of techno-cultural trends, comprehending their functions, and anticipating their unintended effects is crucial for reaching relevance and responsibility in AI art.

翻译：生成式人工智能（GenAI）已占据主流文化视野，拓展了人工智能的创作用户群体，并引发了经济、法律与美学层面的诸多议题，激起了热烈的公共讨论。不出所料，GenAI工具在业余爱好者手中催生了大量媚俗作品，但其诸多缺陷亦导致更具抱负的专业艺术家在使用GenAI创作时同样陷入媚俗窠臼。本文旨在探讨这一现象。在简要概述数字媚俗与AI艺术之后，本文检视了呈现五种相互关联的媚俗化表达缺陷的GenAI艺术作品：对生成模型形式特征的肤浅凸显或拙劣规避、对AI的无力批判、模仿倾向以及未被承认的诗学相似性——这些缺陷皆以过度依赖AI作为文化符号为标志。本文进一步讨论了这些失误如何通过GenAI艺术在艺术界的良好声誉及其与AI产业的密切关联而被常态化，进而导致AI话语的混杂与艺术素养可能的沦丧。最后，本文强调：辨识艺术家对技术文化潮流不加批判的接纳之不同面向，理解其运作机制，并预见其非预期后果，对于实现AI艺术的相关性与责任至关重要。