Researchers at the University of Sydney—Joanne Gray, Marcus Carter, and Ben Egliston—studied pickup-artist content on Instagram, examining 350 videos posted between September 2023 and March 2024 in their paper "Harm Through the '#RizzCam': Smart Glasses, Ambient Capture and Invisible Harassment." They found that 93.3% of those posts left comments open, and about 60% of covert point-of-view videos involved behavior classified as potential harassment. In 43% of cases, women in the footage were later exposed to derogatory comments, doxxing, or further abuse in comment sections. The researchers coined "ambient capture" to describe recording that hides in plain sight, as smart glasses don't look like cameras and subjects rarely know they're being filmed. Content follows a repeatable script: approach, provoke reaction, post for engagement. Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri publicly pledged to remove "pickup line kind of videos" that exploit or harass strangers, but multiple subsequent reports found similar content still visible after that announcement. The researchers note that "the harm does not end when the encounter does," as comment sections stay live for months. Meta points to the glasses' recording LED and tamper-detection features as evidence of responsible design, but critics argue that a small indicator light shifts responsibility onto the person being filmed to notice, object, and escape.