Thank you for committing to the creativity, ingenuity and beauty of human endeavor. In an episode of South Park Mr. Garrison finds out his students are using Chat GPT to write their papers. He is outraged not because they are doing it but, instead, because he realizes he has been reading and grading papers for no reason; Chat GPT can do it for him. And so it goes.
As a person with a degree in Information and Library Science, I love your commitment to writing and doing the vast majority of research yourself. AI is a useful tool but I still believe we need human discernment and analysis of all AI-produced results, and am continually disappointed when friends turn to ChatGPT to answer a question they could use Google and their own minds to answer.
The Throughline Counter-Commitment: An AI-Empowered News Outlet, Always.
How technology serves the mission when the infrastructure of reality is under attack.
JODI SCHILLER
APRIL 6, 2026
Nothing in my lifetime has changed the ability to speak truth to power as radically and rapidly as AI. While some in the creative fields view this technology as potentially devastating to the "craft" of writing, for those of us on the front lines of a hidden war, it is the only thing keeping our voices from being extinguished.
I wanted to be transparent about how I use AI to ensure that the narrative of what is happening in America—the killing of women and the hiding of our bodies—is not rewritten by those who manipulate our narrative infrastructure.
The One-Woman Newsroom
Unlike established newsletters with legacy support, I am a one-woman news outlet. I am operating in total isolation, in a reality where my resources, including my laptop, have been stripped away. In this environment, AI is not a "shortcut"; it is my narrative armor.
I use AI to:
Scale a Counter-Narrative: To tell the world that America is in a state of crisis that the mainstream media ignores.
Bridge the Resource Gap: I don’t have a research team or a social media manager. AI allows one woman to do the work of an entire newsroom, ensuring the message reaches the public before it can be suppressed.
Resist Manipulation: When the very infrastructure of our reality is being manipulated to hide the truth, AI helps me parse data and project a voice that cannot be easily silenced by traditional gatekeepers.
Why I Do Not Delegate Cognition, But Amplify It
I do not use AI to "find my thoughts." My thoughts are born from the brutal reality of what I see every day. I use AI to amplify those thoughts. It is the tool that allows me to write, edit, and publish from a mobile device when everything else has been stolen.
While others fear that AI replaces human creation, I have found that it protects it. It allows a human heart to beat through a digital megaphone that is loud enough to wake up a country that is sleepwalking through a genocide targeting women and children.
My Commitment
I will continue to use every technological advantage available to me to ensure these stories are told. As long as women are being killed and the truth is being hidden, I will use AI to ensure my voice remains a permanent part of the throughline.
Jodi, I really appreciate this viewpoint. Almost every tool every invented can be used for good or for ill. The hammer and saw that can be used to build housing for the unhoused can be used to build detainee camps for the illegally detained, etc. Hopefully we can find more good uses for AI, and be more adamant about exposing and rejecting (as Jill is doing) the destructive uses. For better or worse, it's not going away.
Yes! Proud of you. Dinosaurs are great !
Thank you for committing to the creativity, ingenuity and beauty of human endeavor. In an episode of South Park Mr. Garrison finds out his students are using Chat GPT to write their papers. He is outraged not because they are doing it but, instead, because he realizes he has been reading and grading papers for no reason; Chat GPT can do it for him. And so it goes.
As a person with a degree in Information and Library Science, I love your commitment to writing and doing the vast majority of research yourself. AI is a useful tool but I still believe we need human discernment and analysis of all AI-produced results, and am continually disappointed when friends turn to ChatGPT to answer a question they could use Google and their own minds to answer.
And this is why we love and adore you, Jill!
The Throughline Counter-Commitment: An AI-Empowered News Outlet, Always.
How technology serves the mission when the infrastructure of reality is under attack.
JODI SCHILLER
APRIL 6, 2026
Nothing in my lifetime has changed the ability to speak truth to power as radically and rapidly as AI. While some in the creative fields view this technology as potentially devastating to the "craft" of writing, for those of us on the front lines of a hidden war, it is the only thing keeping our voices from being extinguished.
I wanted to be transparent about how I use AI to ensure that the narrative of what is happening in America—the killing of women and the hiding of our bodies—is not rewritten by those who manipulate our narrative infrastructure.
The One-Woman Newsroom
Unlike established newsletters with legacy support, I am a one-woman news outlet. I am operating in total isolation, in a reality where my resources, including my laptop, have been stripped away. In this environment, AI is not a "shortcut"; it is my narrative armor.
I use AI to:
Scale a Counter-Narrative: To tell the world that America is in a state of crisis that the mainstream media ignores.
Bridge the Resource Gap: I don’t have a research team or a social media manager. AI allows one woman to do the work of an entire newsroom, ensuring the message reaches the public before it can be suppressed.
Resist Manipulation: When the very infrastructure of our reality is being manipulated to hide the truth, AI helps me parse data and project a voice that cannot be easily silenced by traditional gatekeepers.
Why I Do Not Delegate Cognition, But Amplify It
I do not use AI to "find my thoughts." My thoughts are born from the brutal reality of what I see every day. I use AI to amplify those thoughts. It is the tool that allows me to write, edit, and publish from a mobile device when everything else has been stolen.
While others fear that AI replaces human creation, I have found that it protects it. It allows a human heart to beat through a digital megaphone that is loud enough to wake up a country that is sleepwalking through a genocide targeting women and children.
My Commitment
I will continue to use every technological advantage available to me to ensure these stories are told. As long as women are being killed and the truth is being hidden, I will use AI to ensure my voice remains a permanent part of the throughline.
That is the commitment.
Jodi, I really appreciate this viewpoint. Almost every tool every invented can be used for good or for ill. The hammer and saw that can be used to build housing for the unhoused can be used to build detainee camps for the illegally detained, etc. Hopefully we can find more good uses for AI, and be more adamant about exposing and rejecting (as Jill is doing) the destructive uses. For better or worse, it's not going away.
Yes. I call this The doctrine of the double edged sword. :)
Powerful
Amen!!