S1.2 Glitch
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Glitch
*As CEO of a company standing on the frontlines of the war against deception technology, Ash Cavanaugh wants the public to remember that whatever they’re seeing, it might not be real.*
Written by Sarah Jane Justice (https://www.facebook.com/sarahjanejusticewriting)
Narrated by Erika Ventura (https://instagram.com/efventu)
Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (https://www.instagram.com/audiogeekgr )
With music by Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/)
And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)
The episode illustration was provided by Matt Seff Barnes (https://www.mattseffbarnes.com/)
Joshua Boucher is our story programmer.
Jasmine Arch manages our community.
Mary Pastrano helps orchestrate the chaos.
And the show would collapse into static and screams without the ongoing work of Karl Hughes, Georgia Triantafyllopoulou, and James Barnett — AKA Jimmy Horrors.
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| 0:00.0 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 0:03.0 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:07.0 | Today's episode of the other stories is Glitch, written by Sarah Jane Justice and narrated by Eric Ventura. |
| 0:29.4 | It's a constant battle that changes daily. Ash adjusted her camera feed. With only the |
| 0:36.2 | slightest movement and the click of a few buttons, |
| 0:39.4 | she demonstrated how easy it was to change her entire appearance. |
| 0:43.8 | AI keeps improving in the hands of those with less than noble intentions. |
| 0:49.5 | Security breaches become easier, not to mention propaganda. |
| 0:55.9 | Any kind of deception you can imagine is on the rise and will continue to increase romance scammers revenge |
| 1:02.0 | plots garden variety misinformation here at detect we're constantly finding new ways to |
| 1:09.2 | help the public see through it to raise the bar on our end. |
| 1:13.6 | But then the bar goes up on the other end as well. |
| 1:16.6 | We develop accessible ways to detect the scam. |
| 1:19.6 | They change the foundation of the scam. |
| 1:22.6 | The war goes on. |
| 1:24.6 | I see. The journalist frowned. So what advice would you give the average person? |
| 1:31.6 | With deception technology being so widespread, how can we protect ourselves? Well, my official answer |
| 1:39.3 | as detect CEO is funding. Get behind our products, use them, campaign for them, keep tabs |
| 1:47.1 | on what we're creating. |
| 1:49.6 | Ash paused to wipe her brow, but I also want to share my personal answer, as an individual |
| 1:56.3 | who got into this fight because it matters. |
| 2:00.0 | She paused for effect, looking directly into the lens to address the viewers. |
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