They published their research paper, " Harm Through the '#RizzCam': Smart Glasses, Ambient Capture and Invisible Harassment, " online this week as a preprint article. "Unsolicited interactions were defined as approaches that appeared to be initiated without prior indication of mutual engagement," the researchers wrote in the paper. Last year, 404 Media reported on the ways people are modding Meta's smart glasses to disable the recording light. "As these devices move from niche curiosities to mainstream products, smart glasses intensify this asymmetry through ambient capture," they wrote. Egliston said that Meta's content moderation record "doesn’t encourage confidence," but hopes to be proven wrong.