A virtual girlfriend comparison hosted on a university website: the signal is the link abuse, not the content

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

The feed delivers the headline "Kindroid vs AI Girlfriend App Nomi vs Janitor AI: Which Is Better With Images", linked to a University of Córdoba page. There is no article text, only the title, a description that repeats it and a URL.

That URL does not point to an article. It is a virtual tour page for the university's SCAI service with an "xml" parameter containing base64-encoded data. Once decoded, the data appears to be an instruction to load an external XML file hosted on a GitHub Pages domain unrelated to the university. We have not opened that link or verified its contents. But the combination of an SEO title about "virtual girlfriends" and a parameter that loads third-party content fits a known abuse pattern: injecting spam pages into reputable institutional websites to boost their search engine rankings.

Our take: there are no facts about Kindroid, Nomi or Janitor AI for us to report. We do not know what the supposed article compares, or whether it even exists. Any assessment of these apps based on this material would be made up, so we are not offering one.

What does deserve a note is the context. In general, interest in AI companions draws heavy traffic, which makes it a common lure for spam. In the short term, this makes it harder to tell reliable sources from fabricated content, and university and government websites are attractive targets because of their authority. This is a problem of technical hygiene, not of AI itself.

In the long term, verifying the provenance of what we read will become basic infrastructure, as HTTPS is today. In the meantime, the practical advice is not to open links of this kind and to alert the domain owner. If a genuine analysis of these platforms appears later, we will cover it with data.