Baylor is hiring several new faculty lines in economics all told with increasingly bizarre and somewhat outlandish Dall-E 3 images
Or “come work with me and I’ll trap and give you a feral cat from around my house”
My department, Baylor economics, is hiring and to help motivate you to apply, I have enlisted Dall-E 3 to help me make pictures capturing a few core themes. They are:
Imagine a world where the reader would want to come work with us at Baylor
Imagine a way to convey how great it is to work here
Imagine a way to communicate my willingness to trap a feral cat from my neighborhood as a gift if that’s what it takes to get you to apply
So I wrote up a prompt around those ideas and got a couple of images using my $20 subscription to ChatGPT-4. They were … adequate.
Actually, I wasn’t happy with these if I’m being honest. But I couldn’t quite put my finger on what was missing, so I decided to kick it up a notch by putting more things in the prompts to give the applicant. I suggested that if they were to come work here with us at Baylor then, in addition to giving them one of my neighborhood feral cat(s) at orientation, perhaps we could throw in some cowboy boots too. Plus as people who have k…
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