This paper suggests that learning does happen within a prompt. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 By extension it seems totally

This paper suggests that learning does happen within a prompt. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 By extension it seems totally reasonable that the model is developing self awareness by introspecting its tendencies (prior generated output), summarizing those tendencies, and then iteratively building a more nuanced description of those tendencies over time.