diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 13268352..822deba9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -337,9 +337,9 @@ Optionally, you can use the following command-line flags:
 
 | Flag             | Description |
 |------------------|-------------|
-| `--alpha_value ALPHA_VALUE`           | Positional embeddings alpha factor for NTK RoPE scaling. Use either this or compress_pos_emb, not both.
-| `--rope_freq_base ROPE_FREQ_BASE`     | If greater than 0, will be used instead of alpha_value. Those two are related by rope_freq_base = 10000 * alpha_value ^ (64 / 63)
-| `--compress_pos_emb COMPRESS_POS_EMB` | Positional embeddings compression factor. Should be set to (context length) / (model's original context length). Equal to 1/rope_freq_scale.
+| `--alpha_value ALPHA_VALUE`           | Positional embeddings alpha factor for NTK RoPE scaling. Use either this or compress_pos_emb, not both. |
+| `--rope_freq_base ROPE_FREQ_BASE`     | If greater than 0, will be used instead of alpha_value. Those two are related by rope_freq_base = 10000 * alpha_value ^ (64 / 63). |
+| `--compress_pos_emb COMPRESS_POS_EMB` | Positional embeddings compression factor. Should be set to (context length) / (model's original context length). Equal to 1/rope_freq_scale. |
 
 #### Gradio
 
diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 49557a8d..ca68c1a6 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--rwkv-cuda-on', action='store_true', help='RWKV: Compile t
 
 # RoPE
 parser.add_argument('--alpha_value', type=int, default=1, help="Positional embeddings alpha factor for NTK RoPE scaling. Use either this or compress_pos_emb, not both.")
-parser.add_argument('--rope_freq_base', type=int, default=1, help="If greater than 0, will be used instead of alpha_value. Those two are related by rope_freq_base = 10000 * alpha_value ^ (64 / 63)")
+parser.add_argument('--rope_freq_base', type=int, default=0, help="If greater than 0, will be used instead of alpha_value. Those two are related by rope_freq_base = 10000 * alpha_value ^ (64 / 63).")
 parser.add_argument('--compress_pos_emb', type=int, default=1, help="Positional embeddings compression factor. Should be set to (context length) / (model\'s original context length). Equal to 1/rope_freq_scale.")
 
 # Gradio