LLMs Generate Kitsch

ArXi:2604.25929v1 Announce Type: new Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate pictures, texts, music, videos, and other works that have traditionally required human creativity. LLM-generated artifacts are often rated better than human-generated works in controlled studies. At the same time, they can come across as generic and hollow. We propose to resolve this tension by arguing that LLMs systematically generate kitsch, and that this is a consequence of the way in which they are trained.