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）已深入主流文化，拓展了人工智能的创意用户群体，并引发了经济、法律与美学层面的诸多议题，激起了活跃的公共讨论。不出所料，GenAI工具在业余爱好者和兴趣人士手中催生了大量媚俗作品，但种种缺陷亦将媚俗引入了更具雄心的专业艺术家利用GenAI进行的创作中。本文旨在探讨这些现象。在简要概述数字媚俗与AI艺术之后，本文审视了展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突显或拙劣规避、对AI的无力批判、模仿倾向以及未被承认的诗学相似性——所有这些都体现出对AI作为文化能指的过度依赖。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产业的密切关系而被常态化，这导致AI话语的混杂化与艺术素养可能的腐化。最后，本文强调：认识艺术家对技术文化趋势不加批判的接纳之不同面向，理解其功能，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。