diff --git a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
index 18e75a7a2..cbd466656 100644
--- a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
+++ b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
@@ -1961,6 +1961,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     params.n_ctx = 512;
     params.logits_all = true;
+    params.escape = false;
 
     if (!gpt_params_parse(argc, argv, params, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY)) {
         return 1;