Tavus stress-tests its PAL digital human at a coffee kiosk against hijacking attempts
ycombinator · x · 2026-11-10
Tavus put its PAL conversational digital human on a coffee kiosk and had someone try to hijack every order. Without directional mics, its audiovisual isolation model tracked who was speaking to the device, so the attacker never got an answer. The company is now opening a kiosk mode pilot.
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