diff --git a/tutorials/synthetic-retrieval-evaluation/DeDup.py b/tutorials/synthetic-retrieval-evaluation/DeDup.py
index 76f31e5da..dc277ee7d 100755
--- a/tutorials/synthetic-retrieval-evaluation/DeDup.py
+++ b/tutorials/synthetic-retrieval-evaluation/DeDup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ def clustering(self, embeddings, threshold=0.075):
 
         agg_clustering = AgglomerativeClustering(
             n_clusters=None,
-            affinity="precomputed",
             linkage="complete",
             distance_threshold=threshold,
         )