Can AI Help You Grieve?

Yes, I think so.

You could turn to ChatGPT, Claude or other AI chatbots as a therapist.

Or use a specialized application like this.

Or, as I did yesterday, create something with AI that you could never have done without it.

I’ve never been much of a drawer or painter.

For years my creative outlet was photography.

Kids and work and life got in the way of that.

But recently I’ve been creating images and videos with AI as a way to rediscover my creativity.

I’ve seen some argue that creating with AI isn’t art, but I disagree.

It’s just a different kind of art than picking up a pencil or a brush.

Yesterday I used it to help me say goodbye to my constant companion for the past nine years who lost his battle with cancer.

See below for how I did it, the final result, and how you can create your own image and bring it to life.

Thanks for reading.

Nathan

🎬 HOW I AI

I knew I wanted to create a goodbye video of our Cocker Spaniel, Mickie.

I used three tools to do it:

1- ChatGPT to help create the prompt

2- Google Image FX to create the image

3- KlingAI to bring it to life

It took several iterations to get what I wanted.

My dog was from Colombia, and I imagined letting him go back to play in the mountains of his birth.

It wasn’t perfect (I couldn’t get the image to generate a dog with a short tail). And it was only 10 seconds long. But it felt right, and it helped me in the moment.

Here’s the final result:

⚡ HOW YOU CAN AI

You can use the three tools I mentioned above to create images and videos for free.

Here are the basic steps:

1- Come up with your idea.

If you aren’t sure or struggle with a specific clear idea, then you can give ChatGPT a general idea of what you want to do and ask it for ideas.

2- Ask ChatGPT to turn it into a detailed prompt for an AI image creator. 

Be explicit that you want a prompt, otherwise it will use Dalle3 to create the image. This may work well, but I prefer to use Google Image FX right now as I have found that right now the Imagen3 model it uses gives me the best results.

3- Take that prompt and create the image in Image FX or whichever image generator you prefer.

Once you get the first results, if it’s not quite what you wanted, go back to ChatGPT, explain what you want differently, and generate a new prompt. Iterate on this until you get the image you want.

4- Ask ChatGPT for a prompt to animate the image

Give as much detail for how you want the image to come to life and ask ChatGPT for a prompt for KlingAI image to video.

5- Animate the image in KlingAI

Upload that image to KlingAI in the Frames option of Image to Video.

Then paste in the prompt, choose the Professional model, and whether you want the video to be 5 or 10 seconds.

(Note: the free version gives you limited credits but I think you can still use the Professional model twice, though it may be limited to 5 seconds and processing will take longer.)

Generate the video.

If it doesn’t come out as you’d hoped, repeat steps 4 and 5 until it does.

6- Share what you make!

I’d love to see it.

💡 HOW THEY AI

Here’s a more detailed KlingAI tutorial