Qwen 2.5 sparks context bleed debate

This looks more like prompt-induced confabulation than spooky hidden memory, but it is still a useful warning for anyone building context-sensitive agents.

• –The prompt says “Based upon the conversation so far,” which nudges the model to invent a prior exchange instead of first checking whether any context exists.
• –The model’s reference to “me being Qwen from Alibaba Cloud” reads like a learned default persona leaking into an underspecified eval, not evidence of persistent session state.
• –For local LLM developers, the real lesson is eval hygiene: explicitly declare when no prior context exists, and test router prompts that do not presuppose a chat history.