“AI girlfriend” spam on a university domain: when a website's reputation is used as a lure

By Tema EN · virtual girlfriends/partners · October 13, 2026.

The material we received contains no journalistic information. The title and description are promotional text with explicit sexual content, with no data, figures or facts about AI companion apps. We are not reproducing it or treating it as news.

The only verifiable element is its form. The URL belongs to the uco.es domain, that of the Universidad de Córdoba, and includes an extremely long base64-encoded parameter (a format that turns data into seemingly unreadable text). We were unable to download the page's content, so we cannot say what lies behind it or who placed it there. Nor is there any indication that the university is responsible.

Our reading: this pattern is well known in the industry. SEO (search engine optimization) spam generally exploits the good reputation of institutional domains to plant links and boost the ranking of dubious content. The more trustworthy the domain looks, the more likely an automated filter, or a person, is to let their guard down.

The practical consequence is that a domain alone is no longer proof of reliability. A link can be legitimate at its root and malicious in its parameters. This affects news aggregators, and also AI models that collect web content without editorial judgment. That is why we are discarding this item instead of padding it out.

On the underlying topic, virtual partners, we are waiting for a real source with data on their risks (emotional dependence, privacy, monetization). Better a short, honest piece than an invented one.