"Wednesday" actress Jenna Ortega shared that during her teenage years, she had an unsettling encounter with artificial intelligence when she discovered manipulated explicit images of herself.
This experience prompted her to delete her X account and approach new technology with caution. In a recent discussion on "The Interview" podcast by The New York Times, the 21-year-old expressed that this period was incredibly frightening for her.
"I hate A.I... Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong," she said.
When she was 12, Ortega recalled receiving a direct message (DM) on X (formerly Twitter) along with "an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals".
"I used to have that Twitter account and I was told that, 'Oh, you got to do it, you got to build your image'. I ended up deleting it about two, three years ago because the influx after the show had come out — these absurd images and photos, and I already was in a confused state that I just deleted it." The actor, who will next be seen in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", said the entire experience made her feel "disgusting and uncomfortable".
"That’s why I deleted it, because I couldn’t say anything without seeing something like that. So one day I just woke up, and I thought, Oh, I don’t need this anymore. So I dropped it."
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