The publishers of a German magazine that ran an “interview” with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked the editor and apologized to the Formula One great’s family.
Seven-times world champion Schumacher, now 54, has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps in December 2013.
His family said this week that they were planning legal action against weekly magazine Die Aktuelle, owned by the Essen-based Funke media group.
Funke apologized in a statement on their website.
“This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared. It in no way meets the standards of journalism that we—and our readers—expect from a publisher like Funke,” said Funke magazines managing director Bianca Pohlmann….