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ADHDAI (first pass)

An AI ad agency that generates the worst ads in the world.

Inspirations: Coca Cola, Agen+cy

Brought to you by the geniuses behind Hot Talk, Dumpster Casino, and Autonomous Art.

What is ADHDAI

ADHDAI is a parody ad agency built to explore what happens when generative AI optimizes for everything *except* persuasion, brand safety, clarity, or taste.

It produces ads that are awkward, misaligned, overstimulating, under-explained, overconfident, and structurally wrong. The outputs resemble real advertising, but fail in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

This is not a bug. It is the product.

What ADHDAI Does

ADHDAI generates:

• Ads that misunderstand the product
• Ads that over-index on irrelevant features
• Ads with broken metaphors and tonal whiplash
• Ads that feel algorithmically optimized for attention, but not comprehension
• Ads that appear to follow best practices while violating their spirit

Formats may include:

• Taglines
• Brand manifestos
• Social ads
• Landing page copy
• Campaign concepts
• Pitch decks (eventually)

Why This Exists

Advertising is increasingly shaped by AI systems trained on historical persuasion artifacts and engagement metrics. This project treats “bad ads” as a diagnostic surface.

ADHDAI exists to:

• Satirize AI-driven marketing optimization
• Surface failure modes of generative persuasion
• Explore taste, judgment, and misalignment as design material
• Act as a conceptual stress test for automated creativity

If good ads persuade, bad ads reveal the system.

What This Is Not

• Not an actual ad agency
• Not a tool to improve conversion
• Not a brand-safe product
• Not a critique of any specific company (unless it accidentally is)

How It Works (Roughly)

ADHDAI uses prompt engineering, constraint inversion, and deliberate misalignment to generate outputs that *look* professional but feel wrong.

Details will evolve. Some parts may be automated. Some may be curated. Some may remain intentionally opaque.

Setup

1. Install dependencies:

npm install

2. Set up OpenAI API key:

• Get your API key from OpenAI Platform
• Create a .env file in the root directory:

VITE_OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

• The app will use a fallback template-based generator if no API key is provided

3. Run the development server:

npm run dev

Note: The app requires an OpenAI API key to generate dynamic ads based on your brief. Without it, the app will use a fallback template generator.

Status

Early-stage, experimental, unstable.

Expect:

• Inconsistent quality
• Overcommitment to bad ideas
• Underdocumentation
• Occasional moments of accidental insight

Contributing

Contributions are welcome if they:

• Make the ads worse in interesting ways
• Preserve the conceptual intent
• Do not try to “fix” the outputs

PRs that improve effectiveness may be rejected on principle.

License / Disclaimer

This project is for satire, research, and artistic exploration.

Any resemblance to real advertising campaigns, living brands, or doomed startups is probably not coincidental.