In Pause of OpenAI

Well it is, but the text you pipe contains everything you say and your homeassistant configuration to do anything meaningful.

It could easily replaced with local apis but chatgpt is usually ahead of running local models in terms of features, performance and price.

The switch will only come when they do something bad or inconvenient (see Alexa when they had issues with their employees listening into the data or adding adds).

It's like outsourcing your production to e.g. China. It's fun as long as it works but when they screw you over you're stuck and need to put big effort in to move back.

Luckily the ai hype comes with open apis by design most of the time, so the replacement is easier.