"The Kardashians" kicked off its eighth season with a new opening-credits sequence featuring AI-generated versions of the family, prompting a wave of online criticism calling the digital doubles awkward and unsettling.

Khloé Kardashian fired back on Instagram the same day the episode dropped, calling the backlash "frustrating" and urging critics to watch the full sequence — in which the real family ultimately confronts their AI counterparts — before judging it off a few seconds.

Reaction to the stunt has been split, with some viewers praising its self-aware humor and others calling it creatively bankrupt.