21 Apr 2023

Michael Schumacher's family lash out against AI interview

From Morning Report, 8:35 am on 21 April 2023

Michael Schumacher's family are planning legal action against a German magazine which has published an artificial intelligence-generated 'interview' with the former Formula 1 driver.

Schumacher, a seven-time F1 champion, suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since.

Magazine Die Aktuelle has a picture of Schumacher on it's front cover with the headline "Michael Schumacher, the first interview", and in the article it emerges that the quotes had been produced by AI.

German Formula One driver Michael Schumacher gestures at the end of the Brazil's F-1 GP on November 25, 2012 at the Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  AFP  PHOTO/YASUYOSHI CHIBA (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)

Photo: AFP

Corin Dann spoke to our German correspondent, Thomas Sparrow about whether the article was an AI experiment.