Jenna Ortega speaks openly about her personal experience with the downsides of artificial intelligence.
During a recent conversation on The interview podcasts for The New York TimesTHE Wednesday The star recalled a disturbing encounter she had on social media as a teenager that prompted her to shut down her Twitter account, now known as X.
“I hate AI,” she said. “Did I enjoy being 14 and creating a Twitter account because I had to and seeing dirty, edited content of me as a child? No. It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong.”
In addition to seeing AI-generated pornographic images of herself as a teenager, she said her first direct message “that I opened up to when I was 12 was an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals, and that was just the beginning of what was to come.”
“I had that Twitter account and I was like, 'Oh, you have to do this, you have to build your image,'” Ortega explained. “I ended up deleting it about two, three years ago because the influx after the show [Wednesday] These crazy images and photos came out, and I was already in such a state of confusion that I simply deleted them.”
THE Beetle Juice Beetle Juice The actress said the “disgusting” photos made her feel “bad” and “uncomfortable,” which is why “I deleted it, because I couldn't say anything without seeing something like that. So one day I woke up and I was like, Oh, I don't need this anymore. So I deleted it.”
Ortega, 21, admitted she's still learning to protect herself, especially in a career where she's in the spotlight most of the time. One way that's helped is to avoid “the phone as much as possible.”
“I'm always walking,” she noted. “If you wonder what I'm doing, if my parents wonder, if I'm not at work or in a meeting, I'm out walking. I'm in a random yard, I'm lying down, I'm napping in a field.”
THE Scream VI The actress added, “I'm really working on not being so self-critical or just killing myself over things that in the grand scheme of the world with the news and the things you see, aren't important at all. I should be having so much fun right now. So much fun! And I'm not. And I should. And I try to remember that.”