Magazine editor sacked over Schumacher AI 'interview'

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Michael Schumacher: Magazine editor sacked over AI-generated 'interview' with seven-time F1 champion

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.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.

"My wife and my children were a blessing to me and without them I would not have managed it. Naturally they are also very sad, how it has all happened.Schumacher's family said on Friday that they plan to take legal action against the magazine and, on Sunday, its publishers issued an apology. Schumacher, 54, won two of his F1 world drivers' titles with Benetton in 1994 and 1995, while he claimed five in a row for Ferrari from 2000 to 2004.

 

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