> This seems as acceptable as asking a human to do the same.

I wouldn't be surprised if self-bias in the model weights and imperceptible grammar/word/punctuation choices could cause it to duplicate more information than a human-to-human transfer Probably not enough to matter, but...

To put it another way, imagine the task was one human viewing a painting, and then describing it over the phone for another human to paint, so that the final product wasn't really a "copy". Assume everyone has the same eyeballs and art-skills.

I'd expect a massive improvement if the humans on each end were freshly-made clones from a teleporter accident, sharing identical brain-structures and 99.9999% of their memories.