"It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong.
” Jenna Ortega has revealed that she quit using Twitter/X after coming across AI-generated sexually explicit images of herself as a teenager. Speaking to The New York Times , the Wednesday actress said that she was told to make an account on the social media platform to build her image early on in her career. But, after coming across the “absurd images and photos”, she deleted her account two years ago.
“I hate AI,” she said. “I mean, here’s the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed.
That’s beautiful. Let’s keep it to that. “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.
” Ortega also said that unwanted, “disgusting” messages also contributed to her decision to quit the platform. She recalled an incident when, aged 12, she got her first direct message from a social media follower which “was an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals, and that was just the beginning of what was to come.” “It was disgusting, and it made me feel bad.
It made me feel uncomfortable,” she continued. “Anyway, that’s why I deleted it, because I couldn’t say anything without seeing something like that. So one day I just woke .