diff --git a/prompting/tasks/task_sending.py b/prompting/tasks/task_sending.py
index 2635d93e7..7dfb55d2c 100644
--- a/prompting/tasks/task_sending.py
+++ b/prompting/tasks/task_sending.py
@@ -47,15 +47,25 @@ async def collect_responses(task: BaseTextTask) -> DendriteResponseEvent | None:
         logger.warning("No available miners. This should already have been caught earlier.")
         return
 
-    body = {
-        "seed": task.seed,
-        "sampling_parameters": task.sampling_params,
-        "task": task.__class__.__name__,
-        "model": task.llm_model_id,
-        "messages": [
-            {"role": "user", "content": task.query},
-        ],
-    }
+    if isinstance(task, InferenceTask):
+        body = {
+            "seed": task.seed,
+            "sampling_parameters": task.sampling_params,
+            "task": task.__class__.__name__,
+            "model": task.llm_model_id,
+            "messages": task.query,
+        }
+    else:
+        body = {
+            "seed": task.seed,
+            "sampling_parameters": task.sampling_params,
+            "task": task.__class__.__name__,
+            "model": task.llm_model_id,
+            "messages": [
+                {"role": "user", "content": task.query},
+            ],
+        }
+
     stream_results = await query_miners(uids, body)
     logger.debug(f"🔍 Collected responses from {len(stream_results)} miners")
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8fc753fd0..b4adb1e16 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "prompting"
-version = "2.16.1"
+version = "2.16.2"
 description = "Subnetwork 1 runs on Bittensor and is maintained by Macrocosmos. It's an effort to create decentralised AI"
 authors = ["Kalei Brady, Dmytro Bobrenko, Felix Quinque, Steffen Cruz, Richard Wardle"]
 readme = "README.md"