Jenna Ortega revealed she deleted her Twitter account after receiving AI-generated pornographic DMs of herself as a child. Speaking to the New York Times in advance of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the second season of Netflix‘s Wednesday, the actress reflected on growing up in the spotlight and navigating her identity as a young woman in Hollywood.
While speaking about her forthcoming project, an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s novel Klara and the Sun helmed by Taika Waititi in which she plays the eponymous robot, Ortega remarked that her experience with artificial intelligence has been “terrifying.” “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?
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