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Jenna Ortega has revealed she deleted her Twitter account after years of receiving unsolicited images of naked men and explicit, AI-generated images of herself.
The Wednesday star discussed her experiences with social media in a new interview, and recalled being told as a child that she had to get online to “build her image” – only to be bombarded with “disgusting” images.
Speaking to The New York Times, the 21-year-old said that she worried about the current boom in AI due to her earlier experiences with technology designed to create fake pictures.
“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?” the actor asked. “No. It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong.”
She continued: “One of the …