diff --git a/android/src/main/java/com/rnllama/LlamaContext.java b/android/src/main/java/com/rnllama/LlamaContext.java
index 0f2497d3..0fc8500f 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/com/rnllama/LlamaContext.java
+++ b/android/src/main/java/com/rnllama/LlamaContext.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 
 public class LlamaContext {
   public static final String NAME = "RNLlamaContext";
-  private static final int LLAMA_DEFAULT_SEED = 0xFFFFFFFF;
 
   private int id;
   private ReactApplicationContext reactContext;
@@ -175,7 +174,7 @@ public WritableMap completion(ReadableMap params) {
       // float typical_p,
       params.hasKey("typical_p") ? (float) params.getDouble("typical_p") : 1.00f,
       // int seed,
-      params.hasKey("seed") ? params.getInt("seed") : LLAMA_DEFAULT_SEED,
+      params.hasKey("seed") ? params.getInt("seed") : -1,
       // String[] stop,
       params.hasKey("stop") ? params.getArray("stop").toArrayList().toArray(new String[0]) : new String[0],
       // boolean ignore_eos,
diff --git a/ios/RNLlamaContext.mm b/ios/RNLlamaContext.mm
index 60129970..8a1bbe7f 100644
--- a/ios/RNLlamaContext.mm
+++ b/ios/RNLlamaContext.mm
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ - (NSDictionary *)completion:(NSDictionary *)params
 
     if (params[@"typical_p"]) sparams.typical_p = [params[@"typical_p"] doubleValue];
 
-    llama_set_rng_seed(llama->ctx, params[@"seed"] ? [params[@"seed"] intValue] : LLAMA_DEFAULT_SEED);
+    llama_set_rng_seed(llama->ctx, params[@"seed"] ? [params[@"seed"] intValue] : -1);
 
     if (params[@"grammar"]) {
         sparams.grammar = [params[@"grammar"] UTF8String];