Michael Schumacher’s family wins legal case over AI interview
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The family of F1 legend Michael Schumacher has won a legal case against the publisher of a magazine which printed an AI-generated interview with him last year.
The German tabloid Die Aktuelle printed on its April 2023 cover the words “Michael Schumacher, the first interview!”
It also stated “it sounds deceptively real”.
Sabine Kehm, the family spokesman, told The Associated Press yesterday that the legal action had been a success.
The compensation is reported to have been about €200,000.
Publisher Funke magazines apologised to Mr Schumacher’s family last year and sacked the chief editor of Die Aktuelle.
The 55-year-old retired from F1 in 2012. In 2013 he suffered a near-fatal brain injury while skiing in the French Alps at Meribel, having hit his head on a rock which split open his helmet.
He has since been cared for privately at a family home in Switzerland and has not been seen in public.
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