German magazine apologises to Michael Schumacher’s family, sacks editor over Al interview Posted ahago ‚Michael Schumacher’s family maintains strict privacy ever his current condition. Inouye, file) Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article socnstaunonstononin. COPY LINK SHARE The publishers of a German magazine that ran a fake interview with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked the editor and apologised to the Formula One great’s family Seventtimes world champion Schumacher, now 54, has not been seenin public sincehe Key points: suffered a serious brain injury ina skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps in December 2013. Die Aktuelle’s managing director described the article as „tasteless and misleading“ His family said this week that they were planning legal action against weekly magazine Die Aktuelle, owned by the Essen- based Funke media group. . His family plan to take legal action over the fake interview ‚Schumacher has not been seen in public since suffering a brain injury ina 2013 skiing accident Funke apologised ina 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 Pohi mann, *Asa result of the publication of this article, immediate personnel consequences will be drawn. je Aktuelle editor-in-chief Anne Hoffmann, who has held journalistic responsibility for the paper since 2009, will be relieved of her duties as of today.“ The latest edition of Die Aktuelle ran a front cover with a picture of a smiling Schumacher and the headline promising ‚Michael Schumacher, the first interview*. The strapline added: it sounded deceptively real‘. Inside, it emerged that the „quotes‘ had been produced by Al Michael Schumacher’s family plan legal action over Al Schumachers family maintains strict privacy interview about the former driver’s condition, with access limited to those closest to him, ‚We live together at home. We do therapy. We do everything we can to make Michael better and to make sure he’s comfortable, and to simply make him feel our family, our bond,“ Corinna Schumacher said in a 2021 Netflix documentary. „We’re trying to carry on as a family, the way Michael liked it and still does. And we are getting on with our lives“ Michael Schumacher has not been seen in public since suffering brain injury ina skiing accident, but a German magazine published an .generated interview withthe sever-time World Champion.