At 21, Jenna Ortega is one of the rising stars of American cinema. Revealed to the general public by her role as the youngest of the Addams family in the Netflix series Wednesday, she is also on the bill for Beetlejuice 2, in theaters on September 11. Present on Instagram, the actress has nevertheless deleted her X account after a traumatic experience, as she has just revealed in an interview.
jenna ortega denounces the evils of artificial intelligence
Keanu Reeves, the star of Matrix, is not the only one fighting against artificial intelligence. Other actors and actresses are after this overpowering tool, and dangerous for their image,that endangers their profession and their creative freedom. Although for completely different reasons than her elder, young Jenna Ortega also hates AI. She, who is a hit in the role of Wednesday, the main character in the series of the same name broadcast by Netflix, revealed during an interview with our colleagues from the New York Times a traumatic experience. Indeed, the young woman, just 21 years old, had to delete her X account after receiving pornographic images of her designed with AI.
I hate AI. Did I like being 14, making a Twitter account because I was supposed to, and seeing pornographic content edited of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. This is bad.
[The first DM] I opened myself at the age of 12 was an unsolicited photo of a man's genitals, and that was just the beginning of what was to come. I had a Twitter account and I was told: “Oh, you have to do it, you have to build your image.” I ended up deleting it two or three years ago because of the flood of absurd images and photos that appeared after the [Wednesday] series.
These “disgusting” photos made her feel “bad” and “uncomfortable.” Her solution? Delete X:
[That's] why I deleted it, because I couldn't say anything without seeing something like that. One day I woke up and thought I didn't need this anymore. So I dropped it.
To protect herself, the young woman avoids “the phone as much as possible“, whose career is scrutinized by millions of people, and whose private life is made public, whether she likes it or not… The star of the sequel to Beetlejuice also explains that despite these difficulties, she tries to take a step back, and try to enjoy her incredible journey.
I'm really trying to not be so critical of myself or kill myself over things that, in the grand scheme of the world, with the news and the things that you see, really don't matter at all. I should be having so much fun right now. So much fun! And I'm not. And I should be. And I try to remind myself of that.
Statements that highlight colossal flaws in the protection not only of minors, but also of Internet users in general, of unknown people as well as media personalities. No one is safe from seeing their image diverted and used for pornographic purposes. This tool is far from being sufficiently supervised and regulated, just like social networks, where under the cover of anonymity, anyone can send you anything. While receiving unwanted photos of male genitals is unfortunately an experience that many women have in their lives, as a celebrity, Jenna Ortega is likely to receive even more.
After all, it's not for nothing that Elon Musk and a thousand experts want to stop research on AI…