"Is an AI girlfriend worth paying for?": not a news story, but a suspicious link on a university website

By Universidad de Córdoba (UCO) · October 15, 2026.

This material contains no verifiable information about virtual girlfriends or partners. The feed title ("is paying for ai girlfriend worth it ai companion customer support 2026") looks like a string of keywords. It describes no study, product or figure. No article content was downloaded, only the URL and a headline.

The URL points to a virtual tour page of UCO's SCAI service. Its "xml" parameter includes base64-encoded data that, once decoded, appears to reference an XML file hosted on an external domain unrelated to the university. That is what the URL itself shows. We cannot say who is behind it or with what intent. It is, however, a typical pattern of legitimate pages whose parameters are exploited to promote third-party content or to push spam up search rankings.

Our reading: this is not news and we do not treat it as such. The AI companion market, ranging from paid apps to customer support services and subscriptions, deserves serious analysis of emotional dependence, business models and privacy. Doing so requires a real source. This is merely an example of how keyword noise slips into aggregators. That is why it is worth filtering the source before commenting on the topic.