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Jenna Ortega Reveals She Deleted Twitter After Receiving Explicit AI Images of Herself as a Teen: “It’s Disgusting”

The actress said it was "terrifying" to have to see "dirty edited content of me as a child."

Jenna Ortega is opening up about her personal experience with the negative side of artificial intelligence. During a recent conversation on The Interview podcast for The New York Times, the Wednesday star recalled a disturbing encounter she had on as a teen that led her to shut down her Twitter, now known as X, account. In addition to seeing AI-generated pornographic images of herself as a teen, she said her first DM “that I ever opened myself when I was 12 was an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals, and that was just the beginning of what was to come.”

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