diff --git a/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml
index 8523ed063d..da5f5da188 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Setup tools
         shell: bash -l {0}
+        # automl requirements currently install pycocotools as a dependency, which fails to build properly with pip==23.2, so until that is fixed, we need to pin pip to 23.1.2
         run: |
           python -m pip install pip==23.1.2
           pip install --upgrade setuptools
diff --git a/responsibleai_vision/requirements-automl.txt b/responsibleai_vision/requirements-automl.txt
index 1099f4a9e1..08e6113223 100644
--- a/responsibleai_vision/requirements-automl.txt
+++ b/responsibleai_vision/requirements-automl.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 opencv-python==4.3.0.36
-azureml-automl-dnn-vision>=1.47.0
-pycocotools==2.0.6
\ No newline at end of file
+azureml-automl-dnn-vision>=1.47.0
\ No newline at end of file