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German publisher fires editor, apologizes for fake Schumacher AI interview

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A German publisher has fired an editor over Michael Schumacher's fake interview. [AP News]

A German publisher has fired one of its magazine's editors and apologized to the family of Michael Schumacher for publishing a fake interview with the Formula One great that was generated by artificial intelligence.

"This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared. It does not in any way correspond to the standards of journalism that we - and our readers - expect from a publisher like Funke," Funke Magazines managing director Bianca Pohlmann said on Saturday.

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