Pip is installing all packages in the base environment

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I imagine this question has been asked before but I couldn’t find a solution; forgive me if this is a duplicate.

My issue is that pip is installing all packages in the base environment even when I’m in a virtual environment that I created with conda create. My understanding is this is not expected/desired behavior… the package installation should be in the env that I’m currently in.

I think the description below is a related to the problem I described above (based on the answer here: python - Where to install pip packages inside my Conda environment? - Stack Overflow) but this stack overflow post doesn’t offer a solution to the problem.

When I run the below command in a my env tweets, it correctly says I’m in that env
$ echo $CONDA_PREFIX
/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/tweets

But when I ask which pip while in the tweets env I get the following:
$ which pip
/usr/local/anaconda3/bin/pip
^^ which I think indicates that all packages would be installed in the base env

Based on the stack overflow above I would expect which pip to return:

/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/tweets/bin/pip

Hopefully this all makes sense and someone can help me figure out how to get packages installed into my virtual envs rather than the base. Thanks in advance!

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When I’ve had this happen it was because I had a bare, new conda environment with nothing inside it yet (no Python, no pip, nothing yet). If I create an environment with conda create -n python=3.10 it installs a lot of base stuff into the environment like pip/python so then once I use pip, it doesn’t revert to the base environment.

I consider this a bug, though, it is really unexpected and bad behavior! At the very least it should give a warning that it is about to pollute your base environment.