Kim Kardashian blames ChatGPT for making her fail law exams
Kim Kardashian has blamed ChatGPT for failing several law school exams.
The reality TV star shared how she used ChatGPT to study for her tests in Vanity Fair's lie detector test interview series. She appeared alongside her "All's Fair" co-star Teyana Taylor, who asked if Kardashian uses ChatGPT for "life advice" or "dating advice".
In response, Kardashian responded “yes” when asked whether she uses ChatGPT, but said that she doesn’t use it for life or dating advice, and that she doesn’t consider it “a friend”.
However, she admitted that she has used ChatGPT for "legal advice."
"I use it 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."
“So you’re cheating?” Taylor asked.
“They’re always wrong,” Kardashian complained. “It has made me fail tests all the time. And then I'll get mad and I'll yell at it.”
She would then question the chatbot about how it feels about making her fail, saying that it really needs to know the answers. According to Kardashian, ChatGPT would respond with: “This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts. So you knew the answer all along.”
The celebrity explained that she considers ChatGPT sort of a “frenemy”. Taylor asked whether she sees the chatbot as a toxic friend, and Kardashian agreed.
"But they need to do better because I'm leaning to them to really help me 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," Kardashian continued. "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 lie detector operator confirmed that Kardashian’s answers were true.
AI chatbots: false claims and hallucinations
AI chatbots are regularly blamed for providing incorrect or misleading information. Disinformation-fighting watchdog NewsGuard found that the world’s top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, are now producing false information twice as much as they did last year.
According to NewsGuard, the large language models are increasingly sourcing information from a compromised online ecosystem and treat unreliable sources as credible. This ecosystem, in turn, is infested with malicious actors who are often deliberately working on disinformation and propaganda campaigns.
The chatbots that were most often found to give false claims in their responses on news topics were Inflection (56.67%) and Perplexity (46.67%), while ChatGPT did so in 40% of the responses.
Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged that people are trusting ChatGPT way too much.
“People have a very high degree of trust in ChatGPT, which is interesting, because AI hallucinates. It should be the tech that you don’t trust that much,” Atman said.
There are ways to identify AI hallucinations, such as looking for contradictions or inconsistencies across multiple queries; spotting overly vague or overly detailed responses; noticing illogical or absurd claims; and avoiding stereotypical, exaggerated, or one-sided interpretations of important topics.
