'AI girlfriend' spam on a Japanese municipal website: a manipulated URL, not a news story

By Topic EN · virtual girlfriends/partners · October 24, 2026.

The material we received contains no news. The headline, in German, advertises a "free Venice AI Premium account" as a "top AI girlfriend platform". It appears alongside the name of the Japanese town of Shōdoshima (小豆島町) and links to an official domain, town.shodoshima.lg.jp. We don't have the article's content, and the feed description simply repeats the headline, so there is no verifiable information about Venice AI or any offer.

The only thing we can check is the URL's structure. It contains an "xml=" parameter with base64-encoded data that appears to load an XML file from an external server. This is typical of injections into 360° panorama viewers (such as krpano), which are exploited to host third-party content on legitimate websites. We have not been able to confirm what the page actually contains. But the pattern matches SEO spam: the reputation of an institutional domain is used to rank promotions of questionable reliability.

Our take is brief. The rise of AI virtual partners is a real issue that deserves serious analysis, given the risks of emotional dependence, privacy and monetization. But this link adds nothing to that debate. As context for the sector, offers like "free Premium" in this niche should be treated with caution: they may be bait to harvest data or credentials. We therefore advise against opening the link and are discarding the piece as a news source.