A loathsome experience taught Jenna Ortega that AI has always been a terrifying entity rather than being useful or rather helpful. The acA loathsome experience taught Jenna Ortega that AI has always been a terrifying entity rather than being useful or rather helpful. The actor, 21, discussed a troubling online experience she had as a teenager in a recent interview with The New York Times. She said how the experience affected her perception of artificial intelligence and led her to delete her Twitter account, which is now known as X.
The actress spoke candidly when questioned about her thoughts on artificial intelligence. “I hate A.I., “ she said. “I mean, here’s the thing: A.I. 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.”
The “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” actress continued by saying that she had personal experience with the use of AI for intimidation or harm to others. “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,” she said.
“You saw A.I.-generated images of you as a child? Like pornographic ones?” the interviewer questioned. “Yes, of course,” Ortega answered.
The actor went on to say that she opened her first correspondence at the age of 12 and it was an “unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals.” This was “just the beginning of what was to come,” according to her. The rising celebrity opened her social networking account to expand her fan base while advancing her profession, much like many other actors do. After receiving a flood of “absurd images and photos” and realising she was “already in a confused state,” she closed her online account two or three years afterwards. When Ortega reflected on her feelings at the time, she added, “It was disgusting.”
“It made me feel bad,” she added. “It made me feel uncomfortable. Anyway, that’s why I deleted (Twitter), 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.” Ortega said she’s still learning ways to defend herself and that she makes an effort to put her phone away “as much as I can.”
“I’m always walking. If you’re ever wondering what I’m doing, if my parents are ever wondering, if I’m not at work, or in some sort of meeting, I am outside doing laps. I am in a random garden, I am laying, taking a nap in a field,” she said. Ortega went on to say that she and her mother “operate out of fear sometimes” in similar ways.
“I try not to be that way. I think I’ve actually relaxed a lot in recent years because I’ve given up, and I don’t mean that in a sad way. I mean that in the most liberating way possible,” she said. “I’m really working on not being so self-critical or just killing myself over things that in the grand scheme of the world with the news and things you see, it’s really just not important at all. I should be having so much fun right now. So much fun! And I don’t. And I should. And I try to remind myself of that.”
tor, 21, discussed a troubling online experience she had as a teenager in a recent interview with The New York Times. She said how the experience affected her perception of artificial intelligence and led her to delete her Twitter account, which is now known as X.
The actress spoke candidly when questioned about her thoughts on artificial intelligence. “I hate A.I., “ she said. “I mean, here’s the thing: A.I. 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.”
The “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” actress continued by saying that she had personal experience with the use of AI for intimidation or harm to others. “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,” she said.
“You saw A.I.-generated images of you as a child? Like pornographic ones?” the interviewer questioned. “Yes, of course,” Ortega answered.
The actor went on to say that she opened her first correspondence at the age of 12 and it was an “unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals.” This was “just the beginning of what was to come,” according to her. The rising celebrity opened her social networking account to expand her fan base while advancing her profession, much like many other actors do. After receiving a flood of “absurd images and photos” and realising she was “already in a confused state,” she closed her online account two or three years afterwards. When Ortega reflected on her feelings at the time, she added, “It was disgusting.”
“It made me feel bad,” she added. “It made me feel uncomfortable. Anyway, that’s why I deleted (Twitter), 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.” Ortega said she’s still learning ways to defend herself and that she makes an effort to put her phone away “as much as I can.”
“I’m always walking. If you’re ever wondering what I’m doing, if my parents are ever wondering, if I’m not at work, or in some sort of meeting, I am outside doing laps. I am in a random garden, I am laying, taking a nap in a field,” she said. Ortega went on to say that she and her mother “operate out of fear sometimes” in similar ways.
“I try not to be that way. I think I’ve actually relaxed a lot in recent years because I’ve given up, and I don’t mean that in a sad way. I mean that in the most liberating way possible,” she said. “I’m really working on not being so self-critical or just killing myself over things that in the grand scheme of the world with the news and things you see, it’s really just not important at all. I should be having so much fun right now. So much fun! And I don’t. And I should. And I try to remind myself of that.”