Kim Kardashian says she’s found the downside of artificial intelligence — and it’s apparently tanking her law school scores. The reality star and aspiring attorney revealed in a new Vanity Fair interview that she’s been relying on ChatGPT for help studying for her exams, a habit she now blames for her disappointing results.
“When I need to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and put it in there,” Kardashian said during Vanity Fair’s lie detector test interview series. “It has made me fail tests … all the time. And then I’ll get mad and I’ll yell at it.”
Her All’s Fair co-star Teyana Taylor, who administered the questions, pushed back with a laugh: “So she’s a frenemy?” Kardashian agreed. “Yes, a frenemy,” she said. “And then it’ll say back to me, ‘This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts. You knew the answer all along.’”
Kardashian, 45, has been open about her efforts to follow in her late father Robert Kardashian’s legal footsteps. She’s passed multiple sections of California’s legal apprenticeship exams and has spoken publicly about her desire to advocate for criminal justice reform. But Tuesday’s interview added a new twist to her public journey — one that mixes celebrity culture, technology, and the increasingly blurry line between professional expertise and digital assistance.
Taylor teased that Kardashian’s relationship with the chatbot sounded “toxic,” to which Kardashian laughed and agreed. “They need to do better because I’m leaning on them to really help me,” she said. “And she is teaching me a life lesson and then becoming my therapist to tell me why I need to believe in myself after they got the answer wrong. It’s like a thing. I screenshot all the time and send it in my group chat. Like, can you believe this bitch is talking to me like this? This is insane.”
The exchange was lighthearted, but it hit on a larger tension in how technology is reshaping professional preparation — including in law. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT can provide detailed explanations of legal concepts, but they can also produce inaccurate or incomplete answers, particularly in high-stakes fields that rely on precision and precedent.
For Kardashian, the stakes are personal. The California bar exam — one of the hardest in the nation — requires five one-hour essays, a 90-minute performance test, and 200 multiple-choice questions. Kardashian has said she studies late into the night while balancing her television career, business ventures, and parenting.
If Kardashian’s “frenemy” comments were meant as a joke, the lie detector operator confirmed she wasn’t lying about using the tool. In her own words, the relationship between Kardashian and ChatGPT may be complicated — but it’s very real.
