The editor who published the fake interview with Michael Schumacher is fired

The editor who published the fake interview with Michael Schumacher is fired

The German magazine Die Aktuelle had published an alleged interview with the Formula 1 multi-champion. In reality, it was a dialogue carried out with Artificial Intelligence.

The editor-in-chief of the German magazine Die Aktuelle, Anne Hoffmannwho published a fake interview with Michael Schumachermade with a Artificial intelligencewas dismissed after 14 years in office, the German media group announced on Wednesday funke.

“This tacky article and deceiver should never have appeared. It does not correspond in any way to the journalism standards that we and our readers expect,” he lamented in a statement Bianca Pohmanndirector of the magazines of the funke group.

“The editor-in-chief of Die Aktuelle, Anne Hoffmannwho assumed the journalistic responsibility of the magazine since 2009, has been terminated from his functions” since this Saturday, he adds, presenting his “excuses” to the family of the legendary German Formula 1 driver, the AFP news agency reported.

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The magazine had boasted of having obtained an interview with Michael Schumacherthe first since his skiing accident and his severe head trauma at the end of 2013 in the French Alps.

On Wednesday, the magazine, which specializes in information about famous people, published the “interview” and revealed that it had been generated by artificial intelligence. The article had citations attributed to Schumachertalking about his family life since the accident and his state of health.

After this publication, the family of the seven times world champion of Formula 1 He had announced his intention to file a complaint.

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The family of Michael Schumacherwhat’s wrong with it 54 years, seamlessly protects the privacy of the former pilot, who has not been seen in public since his accident. Almost no information has been leaked since then about his state of health.

Schumacher He left the hospital six months after his accident and was placed in a medical bed in the family mansion in Switzerland, in gland.

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