Magazine editor sacked over AI Schumacher ‘interview’

Last week, the magazine Die Aktuelle featured a story claiming to be Schumacher’s first interview since his 2013 skiing accident.

The magazine’s front cover featured a picture of a smiling Schumacher promising a “first interview”. Inside it went on to present a story with mock quotes generated by AI technology, with the tagline “it sounded deceptively real”.

The jarring piece upset the Schumacher family, which threatened to take legal action against Die Aktuelle, a…