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summary: "Add deprecation warning for ELSER in semantic search tutorial"
area: Docs
type: doc
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[WARNING]
.Deprecated in 8.16
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The elser service is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
Use the <<infer-service-elasticsearch>> instead, with model_id included in the service_settings.
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This tutorial shows you how to use the semantic text feature to perform semantic search on your data.

Semantic text simplifies the {infer} workflow by providing {infer} at ingestion time and sensible default values automatically.
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* If you want to use `semantic_text` in hybrid search, refer to https://colab.research.google.com/github/elastic/elasticsearch-labs/blob/main/notebooks/search/09-semantic-text.ipynb[this notebook] for a step-by-step guide.
* For more information on how to optimize your ELSER endpoints, refer to {ml-docs}/ml-nlp-elser.html#elser-recommendations[the ELSER recommendations] section in the model documentation.
* To learn more about model autoscaling, refer to the {ml-docs}/ml-nlp-auto-scale.html[trained model autoscaling] page.
* To learn more about model autoscaling, refer to the {ml-docs}/ml-nlp-auto-scale.html[trained model autoscaling] page.