Why would the DMCA have anything to do with something like this?

Fake footage isn't necessary. You just need footage that DID happen, but continually lie about the circumstances. This technique has proven very reliable.

Remember that what we call AI really isn't. It's just a more advanced iteration of the programs used to create fake scientific papers from 10+ years ago. They're not going to take over humanity. Instead, the threats are from where they've always come from: evil people with lots of ambition. North Korea, China, and Russia already did this to subjugate their populations. So did Germany, Italy, and Cambodia among many others. All of them found that exploiting the stupid and gullible by way of mass media to create shock troops of enthusiastic thugs was very effective. Events of the past 15 or so years show that this technique remains effective: roadblocks, rioting, looting, arson, IEDs, harassment, extortion, assault, murder -- all executed by enthusiastic mobs.

I had professors curse people like you when they wrote their own textbooks, all of which I still own because they're that good.

You seem rather sheltered in your experiences with science being infected with politics. The proper and ethical way of declaring that something doesn't exist is to do at least some token research first. Clearly you didn't do that.

The chances of this new system getting hacked is 100% and will likely be hacked with a few weeks at most of work. I suspect that these price labels will follow the pattern of IOT gadgets having really terrible security.

Sounds like this would be a boon for carjackers and other violent criminals who depend on their victims stopping on demand,

Someone over at x.org did a non-trivial amount of thinking on what X12 would look like.

https://www.x.org/wiki/Develop...

It's careful to say that there isn't an X12 project, at least as of September 2017.

Why would I do this? If I want to listen to a delusional and hallucinating psychotic jerk, I'd visit Reddit with a screenreader.

Just because technically civilians can own guns doesn't mean the government won't just ignore that law or attach so many conditions that the right is effectively denied.

Most of their weapons are stolen from the Mexican government.

Any time you see a statement fitting the pattern "(noun) of choice for (people)", you're being told to stop thinking and to obey whatever diktat comes next in the speech. That diktat is typically something intended to enforce subservience.

Sounds like the kind of courage spoken of when doing what a criminal wants.

You want service? Pay for it. Don't pay for it and soon you get no service.

Good work! They've provided a convenient list of people who are scientifically and economically illiterate and thus unqualified. That saves a lot of time and effort in the hiring process. The list is also a convenient list of who to hire for interpretive dance and underwater basket-weaving.