A university website as SEO bait: the “AI girlfriend” business reaches search results

By Universidad de Córdoba (UCO, via search feed) · October 13, 2026.

There is very little source material. There is only a generic title (“is ai girlfriend premium worth it is ai companion app worth it usa”) and a URL. The URL points to a virtual tour viewer hosted in the SCAI section of UCO's website. There is no article text, no data and no analysis of any companion app.

The address includes an `xml` parameter with base64-encoded content, a format that turns data into text. Decoded, it appears to tell the viewer to load an XML file hosted in an external GitHub repository. We have not opened that file and can't say who is behind it or why. The safest course is not to click. We are not accusing the university either. It is more likely that a poorly secured viewer is being exploited by third parties.

Our take: what matters is not what the page says but why it shows up. Searches like “is the premium version of an AI girlfriend worth it?” are profitable enough that someone is trying to slip their content onto reputable domains, such as university ones. In general, the paid virtual companionship market runs on subscriptions and on signing up users at emotionally vulnerable moments. It's no surprise that it draws aggressive marketing and scams.

Two pieces of advice will still hold months from now. First, anyone looking for reviews of these apps should be wary of results on domains that have nothing to do with the topic. Second, administrators of institutional websites should validate the parameters their viewers accept. In the short term, companion AI will also be a breeding ground for fraud and manipulation. That doesn't change the fact that, in the long term, these tools could offer useful companionship if they are built transparently and without exploiting loneliness.