Jenna Ortega has an Instagram account but no Twitter – the Beetlejuice actress deleted her accounts several years ago after a “horrifying” experience of being sent pornographic images of herself when she was underage.
In an interview with The New York Times, Ortega was asked what she thought about AI, to which she replied, “I hate AI, because it has the potential to be used for amazing things. I think I saw the other day that artificial intelligence can detect breast cancer four years before it progresses. That’s amazing, let’s just leave it at that. Did I create a Twitter account when I was 14 because I had to, and enjoy looking at salacious edited content of myself as a child? No. It’s horrifying. It’s corrupting. It’s wrong.”
Ortega said the first direct message he opened, at age 12, “was a picture of a man’s genitals, and that was just the beginning of what was to come. I used to have that Twitter account, and they said, ‘Oh, you have to do that, you have to create an image of yourself.’ I deleted the account a couple of years ago, but that was because of the influx of posts that followed.” [Wednesday] “I deleted it because I was already confused because some ridiculous images and pictures were coming out,” she added, “It made me feel bad… I couldn’t say anything without seeing all that stuff. I just woke up one day and was like, ‘Oh, I don’t need this anymore,’ so I deleted it.”
Ortega previously discussed the dangers of social media for Variety’s “Actor vs. Actor” series. “Social media is like a comparison game for everyone in our generation. It even influences how we think about trends,” she said. “It’s very manipulative.”
(via The New York Times)