diff --git a/api/controllers/web/conversation.py b/api/controllers/web/conversation.py
index f6bb96bf18e5b..2f6e79ba1251a 100644
--- a/api/controllers/web/conversation.py
+++ b/api/controllers/web/conversation.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def post(self, app_model, end_user, c_id):
 
         parser = reqparse.RequestParser()
         parser.add_argument('name', type=str, required=False, location='json')
-        parser.add_argument('auto_generate', type=bool, required=False, default='False', location='json')
+        parser.add_argument('auto_generate', type=bool, required=False, default=False, location='json')
         args = parser.parse_args()
 
         try: