German magazine fires editor over AI 'interview' with Michael Schumacher

FILE PHOTO: Mercedes Formula One driver Michael Schumacher of Germany takes a curve during a training session at Circuit de Catalunya racetrack, in Montmelo, near Barcelona, February 21, 2012. REUTERS/Albert Gea

(Reuters) - The publishers of a German magazine that ran an 'interview' with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked the editor and apologised to the Formula One great's family.

Seven-times world champion Schumacher, now 54, has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps in December 2013.