Schumacher family plans legal action over fake AI 'interview'

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The family of Formula One star Michael Schumacher is planning to take legal action against a German weekly magazine after it published an "interview" with the racer that was generated using artificial intelligence. 

A spokesperson for the Schumacher family pointed to published reports of legal action, according to Reuters.

Family spokesperson Sabine Kehm confirmed to The Associated Press by email on Thursday that legal action is being planned over a "fake artificial intelligence interview by German outlet Die Aktuelle."

Schumacher has not been seen in public since suffering a near-fatal brain injury in a skiing accident on a French Alps vacation in December 2013.

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Michael Schumacher, right, celebrates after the Italian Formula One Grand prix, in Monza, on Sept. 10, 2006, and his son Mick Schumacher after winning the Formula Two championship race of the Hungarian Grand Prix near Budapest, on Aug. 4, 2019. (Andrej Isakovic, Patrick Hertzog/AFP via Getty Images)

Since then, the family has guarded the privacy of the seven-time F1 champion. 

Schumacher continues to be cared for privately at a family home in Switzerland.

Little information has been given about his condition and access to those closest to Schumacher has been limited.

His son Mick is the Mercedes reserve driver, losing his seat at Haas at the end of last season.

Schumacher shares the record for most F1 titles with British driver Lewis Hamilton, who drives for Mercedes. Schumacher retired from F1 in