A "virtual girlfriend" link hosted on a university domain: signs of spam, not news

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

There are no journalistic facts to report. The item received is a headline advertising AI-generated pornography with customisable characters and «privacy controls». It is attributed to the Universidad de Córdoba, but it comes with no article text, figures, author or verifiable announcement. We have not downloaded the page's content either.

What can be observed is the shape of the URL. It hangs off a path on the UCO domain that appears to belong to a university service's virtual tour. It includes an extremely long parameter with base64-encoded data and an identifier containing the text «ai-girlfriend». That is not a normal editorial path. Without having verified it in depth, the pattern matches that of legitimate pages exploited by someone to plant spam links and boost their search engine rankings (so-called «SEO spam»). We are not accusing the university of anything. The reasonable assumption is that this is a website with a vulnerability or a poorly filtered parameter, not something it published.

Our reading is brief. The AI virtual companion market is real and deserves serious analysis: emotional dependence, privacy of conversations and consent in synthetic images. But the useful conversation is had with data and identifiable sources, not with lure links. In general, the cheaper it is to generate content with AI, the cheaper it also becomes to flood the web with bait of this kind. That makes source verification all the more valuable.

Practical advice: do not open the link, do not enter personal data on such sites, and notify the domain owner if the abuse is confirmed. We prefer a short, honest piece to padding out with generalities material that provides no information.