I was curious about the term changeling and I asked ChatGPT for its versatility in delivering information. A changeling is a creature from European folklore, a supernatural substitute created by fairies to replace a stolen human child, often appearing as a deformed or uncanny version of the original. ChatGPT After some banter of wit, this happened. It's meant to mimic something else, not be its own "thing" entirely. Without a task , a changeling is just... undefined , shapeless. An idle changeling is like a variable without assignment: let changeling; The idle changeling is that changeling . This same tale pops up everywhere, from Asia to Africa. Both postnatal swap (changeling tale) and prenatal swap (subtler, more insidious, and harder to prove). In the old tales, it wasn't always insult. Sometimes it was awe. A changeling could be: sharper than a normal child, strangely wise, speaking words beyond their years, playing instruments or understa...