Kim Kardashian’s effort to become a real life lawyer just like her dad has provided a steady stream of content here at Above the Law. In 2019, Kardashian officially announced that she was studying to become a lawyer without going to law school (seeing as she’s without a bachelor’s degree, a requirement for the traditional lawyer route) and instead studying through an apprenticeship. The process took six years — thanks, COVID — and now she’s waiting on her bar exam results.
Because it’s a Kardashian we’re talking about here, she’s documented much of the process on social media. She shared her hatred of con law, struggles with evidence, and a criminal law issue spotter that cast Justin Bieber as a criminal mastermind. She’s complained about the fact that law student life sucks, explained that she neglected her Keeping Up With the Kardashians livetweeting duties to keep up with torts homework, bailed on summer holiday festivities as she continued with her contracts homework, and dealt with personalized questions all about her. She even has a favorite law professor — University of Washington contracts professor Steve Calandrillo — who she’s shouted out on Insta. Kardashian even has her “just like us” moment, like when she posted about shooting tequila while studying torts.
Speaking of Kardashian’s test-taking troubles, Kim learned that ChatGPT isn’t an ideal study partner. In a Vanity Fair lie detector test (because everyone needs a gimmick these days), Kardashian dished about her use of ChatGPT.
Kardashian told her All’s Fair co-star Teyana Taylor that she has used ChatGPT for “legal advice.” And it didn’t go great.
“When I need to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and snap it and put it in there. It has made me fail tests … all the time,” Kardashian explained. “And then I’ll get mad and I’ll yell at it.”
“So she’s a frenemy?” Taylor, followed up. And Kardashian agreed, “Yes, a frenemy. And then it’ll say back to me, ‘This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts. So you knew the answer all along.’ “
Actually, Kardashian has a bit of a parasocial relationship with the popular AI tool. “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.”
Yeah, this is why law professors get the big bucks.
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @[email protected].