How People ask Claude for personal guidance(www.anthropic.com)
29 pointsby pseudolus2 days ago2 comments
  • rafaelmna day ago
    >We discovered that people ask Claude about random medical issues instead of googling it

    Sounds like the basic gist of this

    • randycupertinoa day 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?"
      • Tostinoa day 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.
        • m463a day ago
          lots of people eat raw fish (sushi, etc)
        • geoduck14a day ago
          Or he was mascarading as a bear and was about to gorge on Salmon he caught 6 days ago
    • ramon156a day 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.

  • forsalebypwnera day 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?

    • BoorishBearsa day 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.

      • forsalebypwner19 hours 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?