ElevenLabs is in the business of voices. Not the kind you hear in your head after too much whiskey, but the kind that machines make. The kind that sound real. Too real.
Two men started it. One came from Google. The other from Palantir. They knew things. In 2022, they built a company. In 2025, the money came—$180 million of it. The big venture firms backed them, and suddenly ElevenLabs was worth $3.3 billion. They said they would make voices better. More human. More alive.
Writers used it. Gamers used it. The newsmen at The Washington Post and The Atlantic used it. It made words sound like they came from flesh-and-blood men instead of circuits and code.
Then the trouble started. Someone faked the President's voice. A call went out. A lie, dressed in the sound of truth. The government took notice. People got scared.
ElevenLabs tried to fix it. They put in safeguards. They built tools to catch fakes. But the world had changed. A voice was no longer proof of a man. The line between real and false had blurred. And there was no turning back.
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