Maybe I’m reading between the lines in your post too hard, but are you saying they wanted people to think this because it is somehow less embarrassing or makes them look better? Including this “repeat after me” functionality seems like an extremely stupid move, like I must assume they found the 3 programmers who’ve never encountered the internet or something.

In 2016, I can see thinking they got the filtering right and that users wouldn’t be able to re-train the bot as a sort of reasonable mistake to make, on the other hand. It doesn’t look so bad, haha.