Jenna Ortega revealed that she deactivated her account on X, formerly called Twitter , after receiving a number of suggestive pictures, including at least one photo of herself generated by artificial intelligence .
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. Its terrifying. Its corrupt. Its wrong, the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice actor said in a recent appearance on The New York Times The Interview podcast .
Ortega added that shes seen AI-generated photos of herself as a child, including those of an explicit nature, and noted that one of the first direct messages that she opened on the social media platform featured an unsolicited photo of a mans genitals.
And that was just the beginning of what was to come, she told Interview co-host Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
The actor said she was previously told that having an account on the platform was something she had to do in order to build her image.
But she ended up deactivating her X account after receiving an influx of absurd images and photos following the release of the hit Netflix series Wednesday , which she starred in as the titular character.
I already was in a confused state that I just deleted it, she said.
Ortega called the experience of receiving the messages disgusting, adding that it made her feel bad and uncomfortable.
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Anyway, thats why I deleted it, because I couldnt say anything without seeing something like that, she said. So one day I just woke up, and I thought, Oh, I dont need this anymore. So I dropped it.
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