Michael Schumacher: Magazine editor sacked over AI-generated 'interview' with seven-time F1 champion
Source: BBC
Michael Schumacher: Magazine editor sacked over AI-generated 'interview' with seven-time F1 champion
22 April 2023 Formula 1
The editor of a German magazine that published an artificial intelligence-generated 'interview' with Michael Schumacher has been sacked.
The magazine's publisher has apologised to the Formula 1 legend's family.
Schumacher, a seven-time world champion, suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since.
Die Aktuelle ran a front cover with a headline of "Michael Schumacher, the first interview".
A strapline underneath a smiling picture of Schumacher read "it sounded deceptively real", and it emerged in the article that the supposed quotes had been produced by AI.
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The April 15 front cover of weekly German magazine Die Aktuelle
