diff --git a/chromadb/utils/embedding_functions.py b/chromadb/utils/embedding_functions.py
index d3f3f1d2071..b7aeb08bf6b 100644
--- a/chromadb/utils/embedding_functions.py
+++ b/chromadb/utils/embedding_functions.py
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ def __init__(
         self._model_name = model_name
         self._task_type = task_type
         self._task_title = None
-        if self._task_type is "RETRIEVAL_DOCUMENT":
+        if self._task_type == "RETRIEVAL_DOCUMENT":
             self._task_title = "Embedding of single string"
 
     def __call__(self, input: Documents) -> Embeddings: