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“A Southern Christmas in Charlotte:" a holiday film, as told by ChatGPT

We asked ChatGPT to write a holiday, Hallmark Channel-inspired plot about Charlotte. It detailed a couple enjoying the holiday season in Uptown, packed with light displays and love.

Several people skating around an outdoor ice rink in front of a renovated warehouse building.

No holiday love story is complete without an ice skating scene at Camp North End.

Photo by Corine Olarte

We asked ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence site, to write a Hallmark Channel-style holiday film about Charlotte. Take a look at this masterpiece:

“Emma, a big-city marketing executive from New York, reluctantly returns to her hometown of Charlotte for the holidays to help her family run their struggling Christmas shop, “Queen City’s Wonderland.” Along the way, Emma reconnects with her childhood best friend, Ben, who now runs a community theater that performs holiday classics like The Nutcracker at the Belk Theater.

The story centers around Emma rediscovering her love for Charlotte’s festive traditions: strolling through the Uptown Holiday Market, ice skating at Truist Field’s Light the Knights Festival, and driving through the dazzling lights of Speedway Christmas. At each event, she learns lessons about connection, joy, and embracing her roots.

Emma and Ben team up to organize a Christmas Eve charity gala at the Novant Health Thanksgiving Eve Parade to save both the shop and Ben’s theater. As their collaboration grows, so does their spark, leading to a heartwarming Christmas finale beneath the synchronized lights of Charlotte Motor Speedway.”

What do you think? Did ChatGPT understand the assignment?

We’d love to share your own seasonal Charlotte love story. Send us stories in 100 words or less for a chance to be featured in an upcoming newsletter.

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