GPT Image prompted to "create the exact replica of this image" 74 times

I love the dueling theories about why it happened. Has anybody tried this with other models?

This and another example in reddit comments both converge on black male regardless of starting image.

Has anyone posted the repro? Haven't seen it yet. Should be a simple loop, have tried offline with stable-diffusion-v1-5 and no dice.

GPT Image prompted to "create the exact replica of this image" 74 times (old.reddit.com)