'AI girlfriend' spam on a university website: UCO's krpano viewer used as an ad screen

By Tema EN · virtual girlfriends/partners · October 14, 2026.

The feed hands us an SEO-spam headline, "AI Girlfriend App Worth Buying Best PAId AI Girlfriend Worth It", attributed to the University of Córdoba (UCO). There is no article to analyze: the description repeats the headline and we have no text from the content.

The only verifiable thing is the URL. It points to the virtual tour page of the UCO's SCAI (Central Research Support Service). It includes an "xml=" parameter with base64 data, a format that encodes text as alphanumeric characters. Decoded, it appears to be a tag for krpano, a 360° panorama viewer, which loads an XML file hosted on a github.io subdomain. A parameter like this may come from that kind of tool. So the most likely explanation is that someone abused the viewer to display outside content under the university's domain. This is our inference from the URL, not a confirmation from the UCO or a full technical analysis.

Our take: this isn't a story about virtual companions but about how ranking spam works. University and government domains carry a lot of authority with search engines. That's why injecting links into them is a recurring trick for promoting dubious products, such as paid AI girlfriend apps. We see no evidence here about that app's quality or value, and we neither recommend it nor rule it out.

The lesson is practical. A .es or .edu domain in search results does not guarantee that the content comes from the institution. And systems that feed agents and summaries with links from the open web, like this feed, need filters so they don't treat spam as a source. It would be good news if the UCO reviewed and closed off that parameter, but we have no confirmation that it has done so.