How People ask Claude for personal guidance

pseudolus 28 points 9 comments May 01, 2026
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rafaelmn

>We discovered that people ask Claude about random medical issues instead of googling it Sounds like the basic gist of this

forsalebypwner

This part was interesting: >But two domains were exceptions: we saw sycophantic behavior in 38% of conversations focused on spirituality, and 25% of conversations on relationships. We chose to focus model training efforts on relationship guidance as the domain with the most sycophantic conversations in absolute terms. I guess they don't think sycophantic behavior is a bad thing when it comes to spiritual advice?

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