diff --git a/private_gpt/components/ingest/ingest_component.py b/private_gpt/components/ingest/ingest_component.py
index 4e01c21b..122679f9 100644
--- a/private_gpt/components/ingest/ingest_component.py
+++ b/private_gpt/components/ingest/ingest_component.py
@@ -49,9 +49,7 @@ class BaseIngestComponent(abc.ABC):
         pass
 
     @abc.abstractmethod
-    def bulk_ingest(
-        self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]], metadata: dict[str, str] | None = None
-    ) -> list[Document]:
+    def bulk_ingest(self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]]) -> list[Document]:
         pass
 
     @abc.abstractmethod
@@ -140,13 +138,11 @@ class SimpleIngestComponent(BaseIngestComponentWithIndex):
         logger.debug("Saving the documents in the index and doc store")
         return self._save_docs(documents)
 
-    def bulk_ingest(
-        self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]], metadata: dict[str, str] | None = None
-    ) -> list[Document]:
+    def bulk_ingest(self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]]) -> list[Document]:
         saved_documents = []
         for file_name, file_data in files:
             documents = IngestionHelper.transform_file_into_documents(
-                file_name, file_data, metadata
+                file_name, file_data
             )
             saved_documents.extend(self._save_docs(documents))
         return saved_documents
@@ -207,16 +203,12 @@ class BatchIngestComponent(BaseIngestComponentWithIndex):
         logger.debug("Saving the documents in the index and doc store")
         return self._save_docs(documents)
 
-    def bulk_ingest(
-        self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]], metadata: dict[str, str] | None = None
-    ) -> list[Document]:
+    def bulk_ingest(self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]]) -> list[Document]:
 
-        # Pair the files with the metadata
-        args = [(file_tuple, metadata) for file_tuple in files]
         documents = list(
             itertools.chain.from_iterable(
                 self._file_to_documents_work_pool.starmap(
-                    IngestionHelper.transform_file_into_documents, args
+                    IngestionHelper.transform_file_into_documents, files
                 )
             )
         )
@@ -304,16 +296,13 @@ class ParallelizedIngestComponent(BaseIngestComponentWithIndex):
         logger.debug("Saving the documents in the index and doc store")
         return self._save_docs(documents)
 
-    def bulk_ingest(
-        self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]], metadata: dict[str, str] | None = None
-    ) -> list[Document]:
+    def bulk_ingest(self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]]) -> list[Document]:
 
-        args = [(file_tuple, metadata) for file_tuple in files]
         # Lightweight threads, used for parallelize the
         # underlying IO calls made in the ingestion
         documents = list(
             itertools.chain.from_iterable(
-                self._ingest_work_pool.starmap(self.ingest, args)
+                self._ingest_work_pool.starmap(self.ingest, files)
             )
         )
         return documents
@@ -509,14 +498,12 @@ class PipelineIngestComponent(BaseIngestComponentWithIndex):
         self._flush()
         return documents
 
-    def bulk_ingest(
-        self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]], metadata: dict[str, str] | None = None
-    ) -> list[Document]:
+    def bulk_ingest(self, files: list[tuple[str, Path]]) -> list[Document]:
         docs = []
         for file_name, file_data in eta(files):
             try:
                 documents = IngestionHelper.transform_file_into_documents(
-                    file_name, file_data, metadata
+                    file_name, file_data
                 )
                 self.doc_q.put(("process", file_name, documents))
                 docs.extend(documents)