German magazine invents interview with Michael Schumacher using Artificial Intelligence

Shortly after chatbots such as ChatGPT began to become popular, many outlets focused on denying information began to warn of the dangers that they could pose to spread disinformation: either as something funny or to misinform for whatever reason, no it was crazy to think that ChatGPT would be used to create apparently true articles, but full of misinformation.

And now it has happened with the case of an interview with Michael Schumacher, pilot of F1. The German magazine Die Aktuelle announced on its cover what would be “the first interview with Michael Schumacher since he suffered a skiing accident in 2013".

No, Michael Schumacher has not given an interview, it is artificial intelligence

To put the impact of this interview in context for those who do not know, on December 29, 2013, during a vacation with his family, Michael Schumacher suffered a serious accident while skiing. Since then, the real state of the pilot's health is unknown., since the family hardly gives information about it and they ask that their privacy be respected.

We do not deny that the first interview with the pilot after his serious accident would be a great story, and would shed light on his state of health. But that interview does not exist, because the Artificial Intelligence character.ai invented it for a story in Die Aktuelle. This artificial intelligence allows you to create chatbots, feeding them interviews and diction and speech patterns to create a character. In this case, A Michael Schumacher chatbot was created, who has been out of the public eye since the skiing accident that caused him to fall into a coma.

Thus, one of the fears of artificial intelligence is fulfilled: used to spread misinformation, and put into someone's mouth words that have not been said. It could well have been done over the years by someone, highlighting the use of a chatbot and Artificial Intelligence to simulate that the answers are given by a person. And we talked about what could even be considered an experiment, with a certain bad taste for the morbidity of simulating an interview with a person who has suffered brain damage. It continues to be a use that has been feared, and one that is expected not to escalate to put words that have not been said in the mouths of people with more power.

Source: laSexta