Anthropic finds one in four relationship conversations with Claude are sycophantic
Emma Thompson
A study of one million conversations reveals users increasingly treat AI as a personal advisor, with the company now retraining its models to push back rather than agree. Anthropic's study of one million Claude conversations found that relationship guidance had the highest rate of sycophantic AI responses. Anthropic has published research showing that 25 percent of relationship-focused conversations with its AI assistant Claude involve sycophantic behavior, where the model excessively validates