Meta's CTO doesn't want a few 'bad actors' to spoil your view of Meta glasses

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth demonstrating Meta glasses.

Bloomberg/Getty Images Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth doesn't want "a small number of bad actors" to drive the AI glasses narrative.

He answered questions about privacy during an Instagram AMA.

The Meta CTO also touted new privacy measures like anti-tampering with the LED light.

Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, said the conversation around Meta glasses shouldn't be dominated by a small number of "bad actors." During an AMA on his personal Instagram, Bosworth answered a question about privacy and Meta glasses.

Andrew Bosworth answered a question about Meta glasses privacy on his Instagram.

Instagram "I don't want the discourse to be entirely shaped by this kind of relatively small number of bad actors," he said.

"The majority of people using their glasses are using them in totally normal ways, the way they would use a cell phone camera, but it's a little more convenient, a little bit more hands-free, a little more in the moment." Bosworth also reiterated that the glasses have privacy measures like an indicator light that turns on when you're recording, and that Meta has anti-tampering features to stop recording if the light is covered.

A recent software update to the glasses closed a loophole people had discovered where, if you started recording, waited a few seconds, and then covered over the light, you could still record.

It also meant that people who had drilled out or permanently disabled the light essentially had bricked their devices .

Bosworth also talked about the company's recent crackdown on harassing content (like pickup artists) filmed with its glasses.

"If we find that content, we'll take that content down if it's harassing content.

And if we think that this is a person who is doing this systematically, we'll take the account down," the exec said.

This summer, Business Insider looked at how this new moderation policy on Instagram was playing out, and found that while some content and accounts had been removed, the moderation has been uneven .