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Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by AI when she was a teenager. She was also inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."

"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI can be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they said artificial intelligence could detect breast cancer four years before it developed. That's beautiful. Let's leave it at that. Did I enjoy being 14 and having a Twitter account because I was expected to and seeing gross edited content of myself as a kid? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

Ortega recalled that she was 12 years old when she received her first direct message from a follower on social media and that it was “an unsolicited photo of a man's genitals, and that was just the beginning of things to come.”