This paper considers AI model churn as an opportunity for frugal investigation of large AI models. It describes how the incessant push for ever more powerful AI systems leaves in its wake a collection of obsolete yet powerful AI models, discarded in a veritable scrapyard of AI production. This scrapyard offers a potent opportunity for resource-constrained experimentation into AI systems. As in the physical scrapyard, nothing ever truly disappears in the AI scrapyard, it is just waiting to be reconfigured into something else. Project Nudge-x is an example of what can emerge from the AI scrapyard. Nudge-x seeks to manipulate legacy AI models to describe how mining sites across the planet are impacting landscapes and lives. By sharing this collection of brutal landscape interventions with people and AI systems alike, Nudge-x creates a venue for the appreciation of a history sadly shared between AI and people.

翻译：本文探讨如何将AI模型淘汰视为一种经济手段，用于对大型AI模型进行探索性研究。它描述了人类对日益强大AI系统的无止境追求所留下的副产品——一系列过时却仍具备强大能力的AI模型，它们被遗弃在名副其实的AI废料场中。这个废料场为资源受限的AI系统实验提供了宝贵机遇。如同实体废料场一般，AI废料场中的事物从未真正消失，它们只是在等待被重新配置为其他形态。"轻推-x"项目正是源于AI废料场的典型案例。该项目旨在操控遗留AI模型，以描述全球采矿点如何影响地貌与民生。通过将这一系列残酷的地貌干预案例同时呈现给人类与AI系统，"轻推-x"为理解人类与AI之间那段可悲的共有历史创造了契机。