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Michael Schumacher''s Family Plans Legal Action Over Fake Interview

The family of legendary Formula One driver Michael Schumacher intends to sue a German publication for releasing what it claimed to be an AI-genꦿerated conve🌺rsation with Schumacher.

A German꧙ magazine published an artificial-intelligence genera🌃ted interview with Schumacher.
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The family of Formula One great Michael Schumacher plans to take legal action against a German magazine for publishing what it claimed to be an artificial intelligence-generated interview with Schumacher. (More Sports News)

Family spokesperson Sabine Kehm confirmed to The Associated Press by email on Thursday that legal action is being planned over a “fake artif☂icial intelligence interview by German outlet Die Aktuelle.&quꩵot;

The magazine printed a photo of the 54-year-old Schumacher on its front page last weekend along with the words: “Mich🧔ael Schumacher, the first interview!”

The magazine also wrote “it sounds deceptively real" with the supposed quotes attributed to Schumacher gener🎃ated by AI. Die Aktuelle is one of many tabloid celebrity magazines in Germany.

It was while skiing in the French Alps at Meribel that Schumacher fell in December 2013 and suffered a near-⛄fatal brain injury. His head hit a rock which split open his helmet. Doctors removed blood clots but others were left untouched because they were too deeply embedded in his brℱain.

Since being transferred from hospital in September 2014, the seven-time F1 champion continues to be cared for privately at a family h﷽ome in Switzerland.

Schumacher shares the r🐬ecord for most F1 titles with British driver Lewis Hamilton, who drives for Mercedes. Schumacher retired from F1 in 2012 after thre♔e seasons with Mercedes and was replaced on the team by Hamilton.