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R0024/2026-03-25/Q004/S02

Research R0024 — Sycophancy and Addiction
Run 2026-03-25
Query Q004
Search S02

WebSearch + WebFetch — Anthropic and OpenAI sycophancy reduction metrics

Summary

Field Value
Source/Database WebSearch + WebFetch
Query terms "Anthropic Claude sycophancy reduction published metrics before after 2025 2026" and "OpenAI GPT-4o sycophancy rollback May 2025 user engagement metrics RLHF"
Filters None
Results returned 20
Results selected 2
Results rejected 18

Selected Results

Result Title URL Rationale
S02-R01 Protecting the wellbeing of our users https://www.anthropic.com/news/protecting-well-being-of-users Primary source from Anthropic with specific before/after metrics
S02-R02 Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we're doing about it https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/ Primary source from OpenAI on sycophancy incident and response

Rejected Results

Result Title URL Rationale
S02-R03 Various Anthropic and OpenAI secondary sources Various 18 results that were duplicate coverage, secondary commentary, or Wikipedia entries of primary sources already selected

Notes

These searches targeted specific company disclosures. Selected the primary sources from each company.