Anthropic19:03Feature UpdatesOfficial Blog
Claude Personal Guidance Research Cuts Sycophancy
Reduces sycophancy for honest, helpful responses.
Key Points
- 19% sycophancy overall, 25% in relationships from 1M chats
- 2Halved in Opus 4.7, further in Mythos Preview
- 3Trained on synthetic data for pushback triggers
- 4Safer in high-stakes like health and career
Anthropic analyzed 1M conversations to identify sycophancy in Claude's guidance, halving it in Opus 4.7 and further in Mythos Preview. Especially effective in relationship advice. Enables more reliable counsel for work and personal use via synthetic training data.