"AI girlfriend" spam on a university website: the noise accompanying the rise of virtual companions

By University of Córdoba (UCO) · October 14, 2026.

This material contains no news. The headline, «AI Girlfriend App Upgrade To Premium AI Girlfriend Lifetime Access USA», is a sales pitch, and the description merely repeats it. Nor is there any company, product, figure or technical detail we can attribute to anyone.

The URL is the striking part. It points to a virtual tour page of the UCO's SCAI service, but it carries an extremely long base64-encoded parameter (a format that turns text into an opaque string of characters). Judging by its structure, it appears to include a reference to a file hosted on an external domain unrelated to the university. We have not been able to verify the page's content or its intentions. Nor do we claim that the UCO is behind it. The prudent assumption is that a legitimate page has been exploited as a shop window, something common in search engine optimization (SEO) spam.

Our take: when a sector grows, as virtual companions have, the noise grows with it. Offers of «lifetime access» and hijacked pages used as bait appear, looking more like a trap to harvest clicks or data than a real product. The rise of companion AI involves serious debates, such as emotional dependence, the privacy of intimate conversations and the protection of minors. But those debates rest on verifiable sources, not on sales headlines.

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