diff --git a/apps/shark_studio/api/sd.py b/apps/shark_studio/api/sd.py
index 61f9b4591b..1b535b66b2 100644
--- a/apps/shark_studio/api/sd.py
+++ b/apps/shark_studio/api/sd.py
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def shark_sd_fn_dict_input(
             sd_kwargs[key] = int(sd_kwargs[key])
 
     # TODO: move these checks into the UI code so we don't have gradio warnings in a generalized dict input function.
-    if sd_kwargs["device"] == "":
+    if not sd_kwargs["device"]:
         gr.Warning("No device specified. Please specify a device.")
         return None, ""
     if sd_kwargs["height"] not in [512, 1024]: