Why Jenna Ortega Had to Delete Her Twitter Account

Jenna Ortega has decided to leave Twitter, and she recently explained her reasons why.

In a conversation with the New York Times, Ortega discussed her views on artificial intelligence.

“I hate A.I.,” she stated, highlighting the potential for abuse.

“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,” she expressed.

“And that was just the beginning of what was to come. I used to have that Twitter account and I was told that, ‘Oh, you got to do it, you got to build your image,'” she continued.

Ortega’s negative experiences with Twitter did not stop there. At the age of 12, she revealed that the first direct message she ever opened on her Twitter account was an unsolicited picture of a man’s genitals.

“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,” she added.

Ortega is not the only individual to have suffered from artificial intelligence creating fake and explicit images of them online.

Previously, Xochitl Gomez spoke about discovering nonconsensual sexually explicit fake images on social media.

“It made me weirded out, and I didn’t like it and I wanted it taken down. That was my main thought process was, ‘Down. Take this down. Please.’ It wasn’t because I felt like it was invading my privacy, more just like it wasn’t a good look for me. This has nothing to do with me. And yet it’s on here with my face,” Gomez shared on the podcast The Squeeze.