I deleted my dad’s (soon to be, for the wrong reasons) viral LinkedIn post due to a safety oversight. Was I correct?

So my dad tasked me with coming up with posts for his personal LinkedIn account to grow his personal brand and like sort of get more work and all that. So the goal was to sort of paint him as an authority figure in his space right? Now the only problem is I basically know nothing about the industry…

So I made the first post, I even sent him the text and image I would use alongside it before posting it to get a green light…making sure I’m not saying some bs.

Now the text was perfect, but apparently the image I chose to go along with it had some major safety concerns which neither me, my dad or Claude thought about. I’m really gonna sound crazy but I don’t get how Claude allowed me to do this. Like I asked it is this a good picture to go along with the post. And it said it’s the best one I’ve suggested so far???? Like looking back at it the safety concern is so obvious so I don’t get how AI wouldn’t see it like bro 😭😭

Anyways. So I post and we get some early traction but nothing crazy, then this morning (2 days later after I posted it) it started gaining crazy traction like 1k impressions per hour. And it was sitting at 22K impressions and one person left the comment calling out the safety concern. And in 2 hours it got 10 likes. Then someone replied to that and agreed. Then about 20 minutes before I deleted it another person called out the safety concern so I could see where this is heading and I decided to delete it.

I was debating what to do. Should I reply to acknowledge the safety oversight and say how it’s not safe and we don’t do it again and blah blah blah or just delete it. I ended up going with delete it as even if I replied more people would still leave those comments and it probably wouldn’t look the best for future people checking out the profile.

My question is whether deleting it was the right move? Tbf there was plenty of comments left before someone called out the safety concern so I guess most people aren’t worried about that…idk…

A few things I’m hoping to get advice on from the community
Was deleting it 100% the right move? Or should I have tried to pivot the caption to an "educational safety warning" to save the 22k viral momentum?

Is 22k impressions a massive deal on LinkedIn? Will people actually remember this a month from now, or does the feed move too fast?

How do I workflow this moving forward? Since I don't know the industry and my dad missed it too, what boundaries should I set so we don't accidentally post a regulatory hazard again? I feel like if I sent my post + image to another AI to evaluate it from a legal/ safety perspective it would have flagged it, idk tho.

Am I ok to post again in about 3 days? Like idk will people call me out again? Should I wait like a week or two before starting to post again? My plan was 2 weekly posts but now I’m scared lmao? Should we just hire some sort of LinkedIn marketing agency or something to do this for us cuz idk? We lowkey can’t afford it tho idk im just overthinking shit now bruh 😭😭

TL:DR my dad told me to grow his personal brand. I made a post with a major safety oversight and 2 days later the post started getting 1k impressions per hour and people started calling me (my dad) out. I deleted it cuz it felt like the safest thing, was I right?

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J-Clash•1 day ago•22

Looks like relying on AI as though it's automatically an expert was your mistake.

Big companies run their content by legal, compliance, etc. You don't have that luxury, but you're still the ones responsible for due diligence.

What bigger companies also do, is train their AI tools on necessary internal and external documentation. LLMs are only as good as their source material.

bcsoccer•1 day ago•15

No one will remember this; You are fine to delete. 

22k views isn't low, but it isn't anywhere near viral.

moonhippie•1 day ago•11

Quit relying on Claude to do your work for you.

Dry-Fan-4052•1 day ago•6

Don’t trust AI, more often that not it just tells you want you want to hear. Just delete the post, nobody will remember, and move on having learned from this

iberianham5•1 day ago•5

Show us the post but remove the info that identifies your dad

Exciting-Good-7871•1 day ago•4

deleting it before LinkedIn turned it into a permanent safety exhibit

k_rocker•1 day ago•4

Treat AI like an intern.

It might make suggestions but there’s a real person (you, your dad) behind the ramifications.

Recently, AI made stuff up that a lawyer included in a murder trial. You can’t turn around to a judge and say “sorry, it was AI”. Everything that goes out must have your final sign off.

veronicamae2•1 day ago•3

why was Claude involved

Otieno_Anyango_333•1 day ago•3

I don't know whether you have realized this or not, but AI tools will give you a response...if you dispute it, they'll start agreeing with everything you say.

PreviousQuantity6929•1 day ago•3

Claude or any other conversational AI model will tell you what you want to hear. It’s not there to make decisions for you or for you to ask it for advice.

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