Don’t beat yourself over it, the joke is hilarious. I think transgressive jokes require you to be really careful about your audience to:

1. Not hurt or offend a member of a vulnerable population
2. Not reinforce harmful stereotypes in people too dumb to tell jokes from reality
3. Not make racists think you approve of their worldview

That usually leaves only the family and closest friends, if you’re lucky. That being said some of those jokes are absolutely excellent, especially those that refer to neutral characteristics, such as an accent.

I do this one too!

They’re already calling LLMs “AI”, calling dumb terminals “smart glasses” doesn’t seem that much of a stretch. And I think they only scrapped it after unfavourable reporting, not because they couldn’t make it work. Not saying they could make it work well and not be racist in the first place, but when did that ever stop them?

Edit: they only scrapped the code from the consumer product, I’m sure they’ll keep developing it. Another report mentions an internal memo about releasing it during turmoil to minimise backlash. They’re going to push it sooner or later unless law is passed to prevent them.