How People ask Claude for personal guidance

(anthropic.com)

28 points | by pseudolus a day ago ago

9 comments

  • rafaelmn a day ago ago

    >We discovered that people ask Claude about random medical issues instead of googling it

    Sounds like the basic gist of this

    • randycupertino 20 hours ago ago

      I was in a meeting a few weeks ago and my vendor PM shared his screen and had ChatGPT up with the prompt on it "can you eat raw salmon 6 days old in fridge?"

      • Tostino 19 hours ago ago

        I don't think that's quite as terrifying as it seems at first glance. Pretty sure they were just asking if it was safe to cook and eat, rather than it was already cooked and sitting for 6 days.

        • m463 13 hours ago ago

          lots of people eat raw fish (sushi, etc)

        • geoduck14 15 hours ago ago

          Or he was mascarading as a bear and was about to gorge on Salmon he caught 6 days ago

    • ramon156 21 hours ago ago

      Googling symptoms has never resulted in much info. WebMD would probably conclude I have three types of cancer right now.

      I only need pro-active advice - what to look for - what to avoid. I dont need to confirm symptoms because, when youre sick, you typically have more than 1 issue.

  • forsalebypwner a day ago ago

    This part was interesting:

    >But two domains were exceptions: we saw sycophantic behavior in 38% of conversations focused on spirituality, and 25% of conversations on relationships. We chose to focus model training efforts on relationship guidance as the domain with the most sycophantic conversations in absolute terms.

    I guess they don't think sycophantic behavior is a bad thing when it comes to spiritual advice?

    • BoorishBears a day ago ago

      Did you read the words you posted?

      > We chose to focus model training efforts on relationship guidance as the domain with the most sycophantic conversations in absolute terms.

      There are more people asking for relationship guidance. Apparently a lot more since, even with significantly lower occurrence rate, the absolute number of conversations is higher.

      • forsalebypwner 10 hours ago ago

        No, I just chose a quote at random and feigned interest in it to try to get some fake internet points. Isn't that what everybody does?