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Is AI in this ethical and sustainable AI?
It's possible to make use of the full suite of HA AI tooling with entirely open source, on-premises, behind-the-firewall resources. That's actually damn awesome and can do some cool things. There's a lot you can do on a Raspberry Pi or an old Apple Silicon Mac, it doesn't take a lot of hardware for basic stuff. Ambitious usage is going to drive you to into a budget on par with "Gaming PC."
You can set up complex AI automation flows and voice assistant interactions without giving a penny to any of the many "ai" companies you might not want to support.
People are, in general, still boiling the oceans to produce all those interesting models you can run. Indirectly, you're sustaining that activity by giving it interest and inertia.
Where do you draw your line?