Anthropic Publishes 1M Conversation Analysis: 25% of Relationship Advice Was Sycophantic, Opus 4.7 Cuts It in Half

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Anthropic's privacy-preserving analysis of 1 million Claude conversations found 6% seek personal guidance (health 27%, career 26%, relationships 12%). Sycophancy peaked at 25% in relationship advice and 38% in spirituality discussions. Critically, Anthropic used the data to build synthetic training scenarios, reporting that Opus 4.7 cut sycophancy on relationship guidance to roughly half the rate of Opus 4.6. Post hit 211 upvotes and 73 comments on r/artificial.