Autotagger error in bulk operations view - module is tagging author's name

If you have bulk operations installed, the module is including "authored by" in the criteria to autotag, and checking it against all available taxonomy terms. The module tags the closest match and none of the terms after the match are being tagged appropriately.

Example:
You have a taxonomy consisting of 10 terms, relating to all kinds of animals. The author of one of the posts containing this taxonomy is named Carl. The node says "Authored by Carl" as usual. If you try and autotag all of the nodes containing animal terms, using bulk operations, autotagger will interpret "Carl" as "Cat" (the closest term) and tag it accordingly. An error screen will pop up, and none of the tags after "Cat" (such as "Dog", "Elephant", etc.) will be applied.

Can anyone include a patch for the module not to search the author of a post in the first place? Thanks.

Using version 6x-1.27 with plain vanilla install.