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Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity

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Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity
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'This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared.'

with Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, who suffered a brain injury from a skiing accident in 2013 and hasn't made a public appearance since then. In the statement, the publisher said that it "apologizes to the Schumacher family" after the star's representatives said that theyThis tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared," Bianca Pohlmann, FUNKE's managing director, said in a translation of the statement.

"It in no way corresponds to the standards of journalism that we — and our readers — expect from a publisher like FUNKE."claiming to be "the first interview" with the F1 legend since his accident, and featured a made-up quote attributed to Schumacher about how his "life has changed completely." While the piece did mention that it was generated by an AI and did not feature any actual quotes from the ex-racer himself, it didn't do so until the very end of the piece.

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