- Kim Kardashian Admitted Failing Law School Exams After Asking ChatGPT for Help
- Recent viral rumors claim ChatGPT stopped offering medical and legal advice
- But AI users may confuse confidence with real expertise and should be more cautious.
Kim Kardashian, arguably the most famous law student in the world, just put generative AI to the test. During a lie detector test video interview for vanity fair, agreed to use ChatGPT to help her with her studies and exams, but added that the chatbot’s advice has been so inaccurate that she has failed outright on some tests by relying on it.
His story comes to light at a particularly appropriate time. Over the last week, rumors spread like wildfire online that ChatGPT had stopped offering medical and legal advice entirely. Users claimed that ChatGPT was refusing to answer certain questions regarding legal and health issues, pointing to a line included in OpenAI’s updated terms of service as the culprit. The clause states: “Provision of personalized advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without the appropriate involvement of a licensed professional.”
That sentence sparked a wave of speculation that OpenAI had made it impossible to use ChatGPT for two of its apparently popular features. As with almost all internet speculation based on imprecise understanding, this turned out to be false. Karan Singhal, lead at OpenAI Health AI, explained on X that this was not a new part of the terms of service and that nothing was changing.
You can still discuss legal or medical topics. The phrase was inserted a while ago to make it clear for legal coverage that ChatGPT does not claim to be a licensed professional. It may simply have been that the phrase caught attention because it seemed new to someone who was not familiar with ChatGPT’s terms of service before the recent update.
It isn’t true. Despite speculation, this is not a new change to our terms. The behavior of the model remains unchanged. ChatGPT has never replaced professional advice, but will continue to be a great resource to help people understand legal and health information. https://t.co/fCCCwXGrJvNovember 3, 2025
But the whiplash caused by this rumor, along with Kardashian’s very public story about AI disappointment, highlights how people don’t always understand where AI tools are useful and when they can become disadvantages. ChatGPT can be great for explaining concepts and summarizing information. However, treating it as an authoritative source of legal or medical advice is not a good idea.
Kardashian’s approach to ChatGPT is not unique. The idea of taking a photo of a test question and asking ChatGPT for the answer is quite logical. Automatically expecting an answer good enough to bet your test score on was more than a little naive, no matter how certain the answer seemed.
Sometimes ChatGPT’s biggest flaw isn’t its knowledge gaps, but its self-assured tone. He almost always uses language that implies a deep understanding of a topic, even when he tries to make things up entirely. They are hallucinations with a touch of arrogance.
Kardashian is not a novice technology user. He runs multimillion-dollar companies and has been studying law for years. But even with all that experience, he ended up in the same trap that many less famous ChatGPT users have faced. It’s one thing to ask ChatGPT for a HIPAA summary. It’s another to write a will, file it in court, and discover later that it’s full of made-up legal jargon.
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OpenAI’s terms remind users that ChatGPT is not a professional in any field, let alone law or medicine. It suggests awareness that people do it independently and discomfort with that fact.
ChatGPT can still help decipher a lease or simplify medical terms, but it can’t replace licensed professionals. You cannot guarantee the legality or accuracy of your interpretations, and you certainly will not be liable if you end up misdiagnosing a friend or filing a lawsuit based on false case law.
It’s encouraging to know that wealth doesn’t mean AI can’t trick you. We should all check ChatGPT answers, regardless of the topic. It’s embarrassing to show up at a closed restaurant that the AI chatbot said would still be open, but blind faith in its answers on questions of law or life and death is even more reckless.
AI chatbots can be very supportive before an exam or when treating a chronic medical condition, but they are only as useful as the judgment you bring to the interaction.
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