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How People ask Claude for personal guidance

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

Sounds like the basic gist of this

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?"

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.

lots of people eat raw fish (sushi, etc)

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

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?

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.

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?

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