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Jenna Ortega Says She Deleted Twitter After Receiving AI-Generated Explicit Images Of Herself As A Child


Jenna Ortega revealed she deleted her Twitter account after receiving AI-generated pornographic DMs of herself as a child.

Expanding when prompted by the interviewer, the Scream star said the first DM she opened by herself at age 12 was “an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals, and that was just the beginning of what was to come.” Per the Washington Post, the barrier to making realistic AI porn (called deepfake pornography) is lower than ever and is of particular concern to women, who are often targeted by and harassed with manipulated and false imagery. The problem has affected Twitch streamers and even stars like Taylor Swift, though laws regulating AI usage have lagged.

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