A legitimate university website used as SEO bait to promote "AI girlfriend" apps

By Universidad de Córdoba (UCO) · 14 October 2026.

There is no news story behind this item. The feed only provides a keyword-laden title («AI Girlfriend App Token Price», «Premium Vs Free Reddit») and a URL on the uco.es domain. None of the article's content could be downloaded, so there are no facts to report.

What the URL itself does reveal is this. It points to the virtual tour of UCO's SCAI service, but appends parameters that do not appear to belong to that page. One of them is a base64-encoded string that, once decoded, contains a configuration tag for a panoramic viewer (krpano). That tag includes an XML file hosted on a github.io subdomain unrelated to the university. We cannot say who is behind it or with what intent, and we have not analysed what that file does.

Our reading: it looks like an abusive SEO technique. It would consist of exploiting the reputation of an institutional .es domain to slip in links to content from virtual companion apps. This is a hypothesis based solely on the shape of the URL, not an accusation against anyone. The practical precaution is clear: do not open that link and treat it as untrustworthy content.

For industry context, the AI virtual partner business runs on subscriptions, credits and aggressive advertising, and it attracts a great deal of spam. With AI tools generating content at low cost, this noise will grow in the short term. In the long term, the defence will be technical: better filters and more robust provenance verification. There is no point in giving attention to bait like this, which is why this piece is short.