diff --git a/modules/text_generation.py b/modules/text_generation.py
index 4e0056c6..ba4b7d79 100644
--- a/modules/text_generation.py
+++ b/modules/text_generation.py
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ def get_max_prompt_length(tokens):
     return max_length
 
 def encode(prompt, tokens_to_generate=0, add_special_tokens=True):
+    if shared.is_RWKV:
+        return prompt
+
     input_ids = shared.tokenizer.encode(str(prompt), return_tensors='pt', truncation=True, max_length=get_max_prompt_length(tokens_to_generate), add_special_tokens=add_special_tokens)
     if shared.args.cpu:
         return input_ids