Instagram vowed to crack down on Meta glasses creeps. A month later, it was easy to find dozens of the videos still up.
Instagram is struggling to remove harassing videos filmed by users wearing Meta's AI glasses. Despite promises to crack down on pickup artists and pranksters, many videos remain active on the platform.
Why it matters
This highlights the ongoing challenges tech companies face in moderating content created by new wearable hardware and the potential for privacy and harassment issues.
Meta said it would remove harassing videos filmed with its AI glasses, but its content moderation so far has been uneven, with dozens of videos remaining on its Instagram platform. Meta; Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Instagram vowed to crack down on pickup artists and pranksters who use Meta glasses to film harassing videos. Meta said that thousands of pieces of content have been removed, and terms like "rizz" are now blocked in search. Business Insider found dozens of the videos still up in the last month, some of which Meta removed after we alerted them. "Are you a secret code?" a young man in Meta glasses asks a woman in a tank top on the sidewalk. "What do you mean, 'a secret code?'" she responds, seemingly confused as the man's glasses record her. "Because I'm trying to crack you," he says.
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