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.