Jenna Ortegathe protagonist of the serie Wednesday, has revealed that has left Twitter today X after receiving dozens of messages containing AI-generated child pornography photos which featured a teenage version of the actress. In a recent interview with the New York Times Jenna Ortega recounted how the influx of deepfakes grew disproportionately after the success of the Netflix series, to the point of convince her to close your Twitter account.
“It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong. It’s disgusting.“he commented on the use of artificial intelligence to create child porn images. ‘He hated it ‘, said the actress . ‘I mean, I mean: artificial intelligence could be used for amazing things. I think I saw something the other day that said AI could detect breast cancer four years before it progresses. That’s beautiful. Let’s just keep it to that.“.
In addition to deepfakes of child pornographyJenna Ortega revealed that she had suffered other forms of online violence. When she was 12 years old, received for the first time an unwanted photo of private parts from one of her followers: “It was an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals, and that was just the beginning of what was to come.”
Ortega, born in 2002, said he opened his Twitter account as early as age 14 with followers to interact and help promote his image. But the platform ended up being detrimental to both the safety and health of the actressnow busy launching the sequel to Beetlejuicewhich is why he was convinced to abandon it permanently. It was disgusting and made me feel bad. It made me feel uncomfortable,” explains the actress, who began working in film and entertainment at the age of nine, “That’s why I cancelled it, because I couldn’t say anything without seeing something like that. So one day I woke up and thought, ‘I don’t need this anymore.'”
Article originally published in WIRED Italia. Adapted by Mauricio Serfatty Godoy.
