AI has become the new RegEx, being used where a string search would have done fine.

I won’t go into too much details (it’s a product I have to evaluate at work so it’s not really my story to tell) but vendor x has put OpenAI in to search metadata when really all I want is a keyword search… maybe with some fancy operators “blue” and DateTime > “2026-09-27 14:00”

Not “the blue thing yesterday” which also allows me to search for words that are slanderous that the AI hallucinates results for.

A search through metadata without AI is fine.