LOS ANGELES: Kim Kardashian said she uses the AI chatbot ChatGPT for legal study, but joked the tool has “made me fail tests”, calling it a “frenemy” in an interview for Vanity Fair’s lie-detector segment, aired this week.
She described repeated frustrating exchanges with the chatbot and shared the reaction on camera.
Kardashian, 45, told co-star Teyana Taylor that she often uploads screenshots and photographs of questions into ChatGPT when preparing for law exams.
“When I need to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and snap it and put it in there,” she said.
She added: “It has made me fail tests … all the time. And then I’ll get mad and I’ll yell at it.”
Taylor called the relationship a “toxic friendship”; Kardashian agreed, calling ChatGPT a “frenemy.”
Chatbot pushes life lessons
Kardashian said the chatbot sometimes replies with counsels such as “trust your own instincts,” which she found both amusing and exasperating.
“It will say back to me, ‘This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts. So you knew the answer all along,’” she said.
She added she often screenshots the exchanges and shares them with friends.
Kardashian has pursued the non-traditional apprenticeship route to qualify as a lawyer in California.
She passed the First-Year Law Students’ Examination — the so-called “baby bar” — in December 2021 after earlier unsuccessful attempts, a milestone she has previously discussed publicly.
On other recent television appearances she has said she expects to complete her legal qualification soon and has expressed interest in practising law in future.
Public response and wider debate
Kardashian’s comments have reignited public debate about the limits of generative AI in education.
Social media users have joked about the notion of celebrities relying on chatbots for study. Others have raised wider concerns about AI accuracy and its environmental footprint.
Despite the frustrations, Kardashian said she remained curious and committed to learning.
“I always want to be growing, curious and evolving,” she told Vanity Fair, noting she still hopes to practise law one day.
