While this doesn't seem to be DCMA, a question for the lawyers here on DCMA takedown requests. Given issuing a request require the requestor to make a "good faith" affidavit, if they're reporting something flagged by a bot that is obviously wrong like this if a human had checked, can it be used as evidence of bad faith & committing perjury?
While a false DMCA takedown request can be fined and ultimately punished with jail time, most of the casework on this has clear malicious intent. These are parties that send out a notice just for articles or posts that are critical of said party. In these cases, you had a human on one side knowingly filing a single false DMCA takedown.
http://www.aaronkellylaw.com/consequences-of-filing-a-false-...
These are cases of programmers creating takedown bots with false positives. Do the programmers know that there will be false positives? Yes. Do they not make a good faith effort to prevent those false positives? Probably. Good luck proving this in court though.
Wait a minute, others have been doing this already: https://www.df.com/
How is this different?
See also: https://youtu.be/ggQKZDZsDec
No idea if it actually matters. Is this a single digit percentage increase in thermal conductivity by messing with a finicky, temperamental process? I don't know. What the paper writers are proposing is under the limit of when transistor structures break down, but not by much.