German publisher made an apology to the family of Michael Schumacher for publishing a fake interview and has dismissed one of its magazine editors 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.
According to Ms Pohlmann , Funke was firing the chief editor of Die Aktuelle magazine, where the so-called interview appeared, and the group apologised to Schumacher’s family.Family spokesperson Sabine Kehm already told The Associated Press 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 with the inscription “Michael Schumacher, the first interview!”The magazine also wrote “it sounds deceptively real” with the supposed quotes attributed to Schumacher generated by AI. Die Aktuelle is one of many tabloid celebrity magazines in Germany.
