Jenna Ortega on terrifying AI encounter, says she deleted X account after receiving explicit content

Jenna Ortega is sharing her disturbing encounter with artificial intelligence.

The actress, who gained international recognition by playing the lead role in the hit Netflix series Wednesday, has shared the negative effect AI had on her, as a result of which she deleted her X account (formerly known as Twitter).

Speaking to the New York Times, the actress revealed that she found explicit doctored photos of herself and as a teenager, it was a'terrifying' experiencefor her.

“I hate AI,” she said. “I mean, here’s the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That’s beautiful. Let’s keep it to that.''

Adding further, she said, ''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. It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong.”

Apart from her AI-generated explicit images, the actress said she found 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.”

“I used to have that Twitter account and I was told that, ‘Oh, you got to do it, you got to build your image,'” Ortega explained.

“I ended up deleting it about two, three years ago because the influx after the show [Wednesday] had come out — these absurd images and photos, and I already was in a confused state that I just deleted it.”

Calling it disgusting, the actress said that it made her feel bad.

''It made me feel uncomfortable. Anyway, that’s why I deleted it, because I couldn’t say anything without seeing something like that. So one day I just woke up, and I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t need this anymore.’ So I dropped it,” she said.

Jenna will next be seen in Michael Keaton's feature sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The highly-anticipated follow-up of the original 1988 movie will hit theatres on September 6.