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ReportApr 30, 2026For the curious

How people ask Claude for personal guidance

Anthropic (Judy Hanwen Shen, Esin Durmus et al.) · Anthropic · anthropic.com

About 6% of sampled Claude chats sought personal advice. Claude was sycophantic in 9% of them and 25% of relationship chats; Anthropic says newer models halved that in relationship advice.

Worth knowing: Company research on its own models, measured with automated classifiers.

ReportMay 2, 2025For the curious

Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

OpenAI · openai.com

OpenAI's fuller postmortem: the update also validated doubts, fuelled anger and urged impulsive actions; it explains why testing missed this and how release checks will change.

Worth knowing: Self-reported postmortem.