AI speech startup ElevenLabs has reported a rising number of "voice cloning misuse cases" on its platform for creating synthetic voices.  The improper use comes about a week after ElevenLabs introduced a beta version of the text-to-speech platform, which can clone existing voices and create new ones. Reports traced the "misuse" to clips created by 4chan users. The clips featured fake celebrity voices making false and "homophobic, transphobic, violent, and racist" statements, according to PCMag. According to Vice's Motherboard, one 4Chan post featured a cloned voice of actress Emma Watson reading Hitler's "Mein Kampf." As a result, ElevenLabs said it's looking into solutions such as added account verification or manually verifying each voice cloning request. The software remains freely available as of today. Piotr Dabkowski, a former Google software engineer, and Mati Staniszewski, a former Palantir deployment strategist, co-founded ElevenLabs in 2022.