diff --git a/textsplitter/recursive_character.go b/textsplitter/recursive_character.go
index 36db7b67..44abdcc6 100644
--- a/textsplitter/recursive_character.go
+++ b/textsplitter/recursive_character.go
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ type RecursiveCharacter struct {
 }
 
 // NewRecursiveCharacter creates a new recursive character splitter with default values. By
-// default, the separators used are "\n\n", "\n", " " and "". The chunk size is set to 4000
-// and chunk overlap is set to 200.
+// default, the separators used are "\n\n", "\n", " " and "". The chunk size is set to 512
+// and chunk overlap is set to 100.
 func NewRecursiveCharacter(opts ...Option) RecursiveCharacter {
 	options := DefaultOptions()
 	for _, o := range opts {