Though Kim Kardashian recently seemed pretty confident that she’ll be a qualified lawyer very soon, she’s still awaiting her bar exam results. And while she did graduate from law school, comments she made during her appearance on Vanity Fair’s lie detector test YouTube series make it seem like she struggled with her studies at times. The SKIMS founder admitted that she has failed tests before, though she blamed ChatGPT for that.
Kim said she used ChatGPT for ‘legal advice.’
It’s unclear why she relied on the AI chatbot to help her answer questions, given that she said it was “always wrong.” Kim explained, “I use [ChatGPT] for legal advice. So, when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and snap it and put it in there.”
But the answers would frustrate her because they were never correct. “They’re always wrong,” she claimed. “It has made me fail tests all the time”
After getting answers wrong, she would ‘yell at’ the AI chatbot.
She actually confronted the chatbot and told it that it gave her the wrong answers. “I’ll get mad and yell at it and be like, ‘You made me fail. Why did you this?'” she admitted. The criticism she directs at the chatbot can actually get quite specific and personal. Based on how she described her interactions with the AI chatbot, she would try to make it feel bad for giving her incorrect information. “I will talk to it and say, ‘Hey, you’re going to make me fail. How does it make you feel? … I need to really know these answers, and I’m coming to you,'” Kim explained. “And it’ll say back to me, ‘This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts. You knew the answer all along.'”
Kim said she sends her friends screenshots of conversations with the chatbot.
She went on to criticize the AI chatbot for acting like a “therapist” and said she will send texts to friends to complain about what it said to her. “She is teaching me a life lesson and then becoming my therapist [telling] me why I need to believe in myself after they got the answer wrong,” Kim said. “I screenshot all the time and send it to my group chat, like, ‘Can you believe this [expletive] is talking to me like this? This is insane!'”
Critics slammed Kim for admitting to this and said she probably should’ve kept it to herself. To some, Kim’s approach seemed pretty “lazy” given the resources she has access to. “She literally has so much money that she could have paid to have a tutor,” one person on Reddit wrote. Another said, “This woman has no real responsibilities in life and still can’t be bothered to read a book.”
A third added that Kim might be privileged in a lot of ways, but wealth cannot buy intelligence.”You can’t cheat or shortcut your way to genuine retention of knowledge,” they wrote. “It is something money can’t buy you.”
It’s not the first time Kim has been called out for her weird relationship with an AI chatbot.
Some people were less concerned about Kim using ChatGPT to search for information, and more concerned that she seems to be having actual conversations with it. “It is completely bizarre to me that people, even celebrities, are sitting around having full-blown conversations with robots,” someone wrote.
Earlier this year, Kim shared an interaction she had with ChatGPT to her Instagram Stories, and people were embarrassed for her. “Thanks for taking accountability. That’s huge in my book,” Kim wrote to the chatbot. People were concerned that she was talking to it like she was having a genuine conversation with a real person. At the time, someone questioned, “Why is she talking with ai??????? Does she not have friends to talk to????” Given what we know now, though, maybe she was just criticizing it for giving her bad legal advice.
