A UCO virtual tour used as spam bait: the link is not a news story about AI girlfriends

By University of Córdoba (UCO) · October 13, 2026.

The material we received contains no news story. There is only a spam-like headline («advantages of ai girlfriend ai girlfriend app rating for adults») and a URL for the virtual tour of the UCO's SCAI service. No article could be downloaded.

The URL includes an `xml=` parameter with a base64-encoded block. Decoding it reveals a configuration tag for krpano, a 360° panorama viewer. That tag instructs the page to load an XML file hosted in a GitHub Pages repository unrelated to the university. We have not opened that file and cannot know what it contains.

This pattern is common in SEO spam. Reputable pages, such as university ones, that accept external parameters are exploited to place links or promotional content under their domain. This is our reading based on the URL, not a conclusion from the UCO nor a verified fact. Nor do we claim that the university has been compromised: the page may simply be permissive about what it accepts via URL.

Our take is brief. There is no AI breakthrough here, nor any data on virtual companionship worth discussing. The only thing it illustrates is an underlying problem: those who automate the spread of content, including niche content such as «AI girlfriends», exploit the trust placed in institutional domains. With cheap agents, that noise will grow, and provenance filters will be as necessary as the models themselves. That is why we are not developing the topic of virtual partners from this source.