Macabre: German magazine publishes fake exclusive interview with Michael Schumacher made by artificial intelligence

AI faces a new learning challenge and will no doubt reach journalism schools very soon as the German magazine actual death, published on its front page a fake “interview” with Michael Schumacher. Answers were generated Artificial intelligence. The magazine sold the text as “first interview” this is done with the seven-time champion after he had a skiing accident in 2013 and describes it as “world sensation”.

The magazine publishes a close-up of the athlete with the inscription “world sensation”. The conversation was generated via a website that mimics responsesbut the magazine does not elaborate on this information until near the end of the “interview”.

The interview is unsigned and published on 15 April. In Germany, social networks have already reacted angrily to the prank.

“The publication of an ‘exclusive interview’ by Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence… What lack of decorum“:

In fact, at the end of the interview, Die Aktualle put: “Did Michael Schumacher really say all this? The interview was online. On the page related to artificial intelligence ».

To create text Die Aktuelle used the “character.ai” app, which allows you to simulate a conversation with famous people, answering questions in the way this artificial intelligence thinks the character would speak in question using information from previous statements by these individuals.

“How do you feel after the accident in which you suffered in 2013?” or “How are you feeling today?” are some of the questions. which makes this publication in text, even asking the intended interlocutor if he is following the career of his son Mick.

“My life has completely changed,” the post emphasizes. on its spread, between quotation marks, as if the phrase was spoken by Michael Schumacher, which caused general rejection expressed through social networks.