Jenna Ortega Deleted X/Twitter After Seeing ‘Dirtily Edited’ AI Content Depicting Her As A Minor

Actress Jenna Ortega revealed in a new interview with The New York Times published this weekend that she deleted the social media platform X/Twitter several years ago after seeing AI-generated pornographic images of herself when she was a minor.

“I hate AI,” Ortega, now 21, told the Times, while conceding that the technology “could be used for incredible things.”

“Did I enjoy being 14 and creating a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing gross, edited content of me as a child? No,” she said. “It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong.”

The “Beetlejuice” star compared artificial intelligence to Pandora’s box: “It’s here now. We’re going to have to deal with the consequences.”

“I had a Twitter account and I was like, ‘Oh, you have to do this, you have to build your image,’” Ortega continued. She also shared that the wave of unsolicited “absurd images and photos” she received after her show “Wednesday” aired in 2022 prompted her to delete her X-rated account altogether. “It was disgusting, and it made me feel bad. It made me feel uncomfortable,” she said. “Anyway, that’s 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 dropped it.”