star has opened up about the disturbing interactions she’s had on social media which led to her deleting her . Ahead of the release of the highly-anticipated sequel and the second season of , the 21-year-old scream queen spoke with about her stellar career. During the conversation, Ortega unpacked the deeply disturbing reason why she hates artificial intelligence (AI) and how it affected her as a child star on the internet.
“I hate AI,” she began. “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.
” Further in the conversation where she reflected on navigating the internet as a child actor, Ortega revealed the first DM she’d opened was an “unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals”. She was only 12 when she opened the message. “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 of 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 star continued. “It was disgusting, and it made me feel bad. It made me feel uncomfortable.
Anyway, 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.
” This isn’t the first time a . In June, Australia’s in numerous non-consensual, sexually explicit deepfake videos featuring a 17-year-old and the target of AI-generated sexually explicit images on X. And it’s not just celebrities who are impacted by this technology.
Regular people have also been impacted by the creation of non-consensual AI sexually explicit images. Recently, a was passed through parliament. People who share deepfakes or sexually explicit AI’s of others without their consent can face seven years in prison under the new law.
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