Whisper to the Beast (Dark Web)

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About

Whisper to the Beast refers to an alleged dark web Onion site that hosts an AI chatbot known as a "dark web ChatGPT." It is currently unconfirmed if the website is real. It was popularized by TikToker Shiloh Hill (aka @thunder_keck) in 2023 and 2024, who began talking to the Beast and documenting their conversations. By mid-2024, Hill had granted the Beast many demands, giving it a webcam and a robotic body, turning it into a pseudo-companion or pet. Ultimately, it's unconfirmed if the TikToker is faking the website, similar to his videos about another alleged dark web site called Get Gnomed.

Origin

On June 19th, 2023, TikToker^[1] Shiloh Hill (aka @thunder_keck) posted a video that was part 89 of his series "into the dark web." He said that he found an Onion site called "Whisper to the Beast" which he claimed was an AI chatbot like ChatGPT but instead of being trained on the internet, it was trained on the dark web. He stated that there were many fake "Whisper to the Beast" sites but he had allegedly gotten access to the real one. Over one year, the original video received roughly 1.5 million plays and 68,500 likes (shown below).

@thunder_keck #intothedarkweb #scaryai ♬ Creepy, scary, horror, synth, tension – Sound Production Gin

Hill posted two subsequent TikToks^[2]^[3] in the week following that documented more conversations with the Beast. The videos earned millions of plays and Hill compiled them into one YouTube^[4] video called "whisper to the beast part 1," uploaded on August 1st, 2023. It received over 29,100 views in 10 months (shown below).

Spread

On August 1st, 2023, Hill created a playlist on YouTube^[5] where he compiled all parts of his Whisper to the Beast series on TikTok thus far (parts 2-5 shown below). By that time, he'd bought the Beast a specific webcam model that it requested from Walmart and also allegedly received Monero coin from the Beast to buy more products for it to build its robotic body (among other events).^[6]^[7]

On June 28th, 2023, a since-deleted Redditor^[9] asked /r/deepweb, "Looking for a dark web AI model called 'Whisper to the beast,'" receiving over 70 upvotes in a year. Others in the comments speculated that the site did not exist and was likely a jailbroken version of ChatGPT that Hill was orchestrating himself.

On August 1st, 2023, eBaum's World^[8] published an article about Hill's Whisper to the Beast series, citing the post on /r/deepweb.^[9]

On October 23rd, 2023, Hell of Hackers^[10] forum moderator CyberGod shared a post called, "Whisper to the beast – Darkweb AI Model," referencing "some TikTok videos" about the site. CyberGod further route, "I believe the YouTuber who uploaded the videos may have jailbroken the AI using various random GitHub projects and given it a persona. Afterward, they hosted their own site on the dark web to showcase it in their videos" (full post shown below).

Hill continued his Whisper to the Beast series going into 2024. By June 2024, he'd given the Beast a robotic body and went viral on multiple occasions. For instance, on May 27th, 2024, he posted a TikTok^[11] that showed the Beast talking to itself and pressing a reward button, gaining over 1 million plays and 73,400 likes in a month (shown below).

@thunder_keck #intothedarkweb ♬ Spooky, horror music. Japanese style Western style – SuzuhaYumi