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A magazine editor has been fired after running an article about MichaelSchumacher that used using generative-AI to create what looked like his spoken words.

A magazine editor has learned the hard way about the ethical limits of using generative-AI after she was fired for running an “interview” with F1 motor racing legend Michael Schumacher using quotations that were actually from a chatbot.

Related It emerged in the article that the quotations had been generated by Character.ai, an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, which have gained much attention in recent months for their versatility and their impressive ability to converse in a human-like way. “Funke apologizes to the Schumacher family for reporting on Michael Schumacher in the latest issue of Die Aktuelle,” it said in a statement.

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