Spam on a Japanese municipal website: how a public portal is used to push AI 'virtual girlfriends'

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

The source material contains no news about Erotica AI. There is only a promotional headline ("free premium account and the best AI virtual girlfriend chat") linked to the website of the Japanese municipality of Shōdoshima. None of the article's content could be downloaded.

The only verifiable information is in the URL itself. It points to a page on an institutional portal (town.shodoshima.lg.jp) but includes an "xml" parameter with base64-encoded data. Decoding it reveals an instruction that loads an XML file from an external domain ("vrfeeds.com"). That is not normal content for a municipal website.

We cannot say who is behind it or how the link was generated. Nor have we verified that the town hall's site has been compromised. The prudent thing is to say only this: the link has the typical structure of SEO spam campaigns, which exploit the reputation of public domains to rank ads.

Our take is that the finding matters more as a symptom than as news. The AI companionship market is lucrative enough to attract aggressive ranking tactics. The promise of "free premium" is the classic hook in this kind of campaign. If you ever want to try one of these services, always go through the provider's official website, never through a link that reaches you from an unrelated page.

In general, these apps raise legitimate questions about loneliness, emotional dependence and the handling of intimate data. They deserve serious analysis, but based on solid sources, not material like this. Here, we prefer a short, honest piece to one padded with generalities.