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German publisher apologizes for fake Michael Schumacher AI interview
Updated On: 23 April, 2023 03:17 PM IST | Berlin | AP
Schumacher retired from F1 in 2012 after three seasons with Mercedes and was replaced on the team by Lewis Hamilton, who has matched Schumacher`s F1 titles record
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Michael Schumacher. Pic/AFP
A German publisher has fired one of its magazine`s editors and apologized to the family of Michael Schumacher for publishing a fake interview with the Formula One great that was generated by artificial intelligence. "This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared. It does not in any way correspond to the standards of journalism that we " and our readers " expect from a publisher like Funke," Funke magazines managing director Bianca Pohlmann said on Saturday.
Pohlmann said Funke was firing the chief editor of Die Aktuelle magazine, where the so-called interview appeared, and the group apologized to Schumacher`s family. Family spokesperson Sabine Kehm already told The Associated Press by email on Thursday that it was planning to take legal action over a "fake artificial intelligence interview by German outlet Die Aktuelle." The magazine printed a photo of the 54-year-old Schumacher on its front page last weekend along with the words: "Michael Schumacher, the first interview!"
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