Mogul, actress, and Kanye's ex, Kim Kardashian, just failed the California bar exam again. That's not surprising considering that it has the reputation of being one of the nation's most difficult exams, the passage of which allows law students the chance to practice their profession. But the reason for her failure should be a lesson for us all.
When she got word that she failed, her failure was shared with millions of people.
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Kim Kardashian broke down in tears as she expressed how hard and stressful her life has been while trying to pass the BAR exam which she recently failed.
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) November 18, 2025
Kardashian: “I am so tired… A part of me wants to give up. I feel like my brain is going to explode, and I… pic.twitter.com/k9xr7sAJSE
Kardashian is hardly alone in failing the bar. Many American leaders have failed a bar exam or three. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, and many more have failed the bar the first time around.
Kardashian was inspired to become a lawyer by her late father, famous Los Angeles attorney Robert Kardashian, who was one of O.J. Simpson's defense attorneys. He brought the "Dream Team" of lawyers together, who convinced a jury that the former USC and professional football player was not guilty of double murder.
The star of her family's reality TV show, The Kardashians, was also inspired to practice law after dabbling in a few successful public relations efforts to free people from prison.
In a refreshing move, California allows would-be lawyers to receive legal training at the feet of a master instead of going to law school. Kardashian has been studying this way for years and, as a 1L in 2021, passed the so-called "baby bar" after three tries. She also passed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) this year.
The 45-year-old admitted on camera that she placed her faith in soothsayers and card readers who promised that she'd pass.
Kim Kardashian shares her frustration in a new TikTok after failing the California bar exam, calling out psychics who told her she’d pass. pic.twitter.com/SfHiwzA2HQ
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Worse, however, Kardashian placed her faith in ChatGPT. Kardashian admitted to using the artificial intelligence program to help her study for the bar. She discovered that ChatGPT, like so many other AI programs, spews a bunch of nonsense, wrong answers, and blather.
Naturally, the interwebs mocked her use of AI to get the right answers. This one is particularly funny.
Anyone using AI for fact-checking is in for a rude awakening. AI has changed the way many people do their jobs, reporters included. But AI works off probabilities and makes up a lot of stuff called "hallucinations."
I use PerplexityAI and constantly have to correct it because bad info is either fed to it by a far-left whackadoodle or intel that it gleans from the ether. It sounds counterintuitive, but you've got to fact check AI with the citations it provides and that you come up with yourself and keep honing the answers and correcting it o finally achieve an answer you can trust. Grok is better, but hardly flawless.
I'm in the camp that good, well-intentioned people should train AI before the crazies set the fake news narrative.
I had AI make a box graph the other day of states that allow postmarked mail-in ballots to be counted after election day. I wanted the graphic for my interview with J. Christian Adams. Christian fact-checked it on the Adult in the Room Podcast in real time, saying the list left off multiple states he'd known for a fact had extended deadlines because he'd sued them.
Thanks, AI. For the record, I did double-check the facts, but only the facts AI had shown me. How hard was it for the AI meta crawler to find hard and fast deadline information, I reckoned. The other states were left off the chart entirely. Another AI lesson learned.
I learned on a law podcast that lazy attorneys or their law clerks have been citing case law and allegedly precedent-setting legal cases that don't exist in their briefs to judges. They exist in AI hallucinations, however.
We're in dangerous territory, here, folks.
And so it was for Kim Kardashian.
Kardashian—SKIMS co-founder and aspiring lawyer—revealed in a Vanity Fair interview earlier this month that she used ChatGPT to answer legal questions while preparing for her law school exams. According to Kardashian, the AI chatbot frequently provided incorrect answers, contributing to her failure in multiple legal tests.
"I use [ChatGPT] for legal advice, so when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I will take a picture and snap it and put it in there. They're always wrong. It has made me fail tests," the All's Fair actress said, describing how the tool’s confident, yet inaccurate, responses led directly to her setbacks.
Newsweek talked to New York law professor Mark Bartholomew, who said what Kardashian "is doing is fine," but "the danger is overreliance." No question about that. But he cautions that, "any responsible law student or lawyer needs to double check a chatbot’s responses to their questions."
Caveat emptor.
