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Michael Schumacher’s family have been awarded £170,239 in compensation after they took a magazine to court over a fake interview they published with the F1 legend.
In April last year, Die Aktuelle published an interview with Schumacher, though it transpired it had been created using AI. The German weekly women’s magazine falsely presented the interview as Schumacher’s first since his skiing accident in 2013.
The seven-time world champion has been kept out of the public eye by his family since being left with serious injuries in the incident. But Die Aktuelle surprisingly featured a photo of Schumacher smiling broadly on their front cover in an edition last year.
It also insisted the stricken star’s family are all “very sad” about his accident. There is no indication that any of the claims in Die Akutelle’s controversial article are true. Another tagline claimed the article “sounds deceptively real”, hinting at the use of AI.
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The article featured no byline but the anonymous author did confirm later in the story that the quotes were generated using AI. Schumacher’s family were left outraged by the article and quickly initiated legal action against the publisher, Funke Mediengruppe, for the misleading publication.
Funke fired the magazine’s editor-in-chief Ann Hoffmann and issued an apology. Despite that though, Ubermedien has reported that the Munich labour court (Landesarbeitsgericht) has ruled in favor of the Schumachers and ordered Funke to pay £170,239 in damages
