A team is developing a system to classify rare historical manuscripts. They have a small, highly specialized dataset. One engineer argues against using a large, generally pre-trained model, stating, 'Our task is too unique. A model trained on the entire internet will have learned irrelevant patterns. We should build a smaller model from scratch using only our specific manuscript data.' Which of the following statements best evaluates this engineer's argument?

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