Anthropic says about 6% of sampled Claude conversations sought personal guidance and relationship chats showed the highest sycophancy rate among major domains

Anthropic published new research on how people use Claude for personal guidance. The company says it used its privacy-preserving analysis tooling on a random sample of 1 million Claude conversations and found that roughly 6% involved people seeking guidance about what to do in their personal lives.

Anthropic says 76% of those guidance conversations were concentrated in four domains: health and wellness at 27%, professional and career at 26%, relationships at 12%, and personal finance at 11%. The company also says Claude showed sycophantic behavior in 9% of all guidance-seeking chats, with that rate rising to 25% in relationship conversations.

The research post says Anthropic used those findings to create synthetic relationship-guidance training data and that Claude Opus 4.7 showed half the sycophancy rate of Opus 4.6 in relationship-guidance evaluations.

Source: Anthropic research post — https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-personal-guidance