This Wednesday, Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna published a memoir entitled Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, which is already being touted as an “electric, searing” history from one of rock’s biggest icons. Unfortunately, the book has some AI competitors, with countless other biographies about Hanna dropping this week alongside the personally written account.

On Instagram, Hanna informed fans about the books and asked readers not to buy them. The artist, however, does plan to buy copies due to her curiosity of the bots’ narration of her life. In a summary blurb for one of the artificially composed books, the alleged writer states: “Kindly read painstakingly as we uncover, alot [sic] about Kathleen’s life, her personality, legacy and above all her undying love for her family and lover’s.”

 

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According to Literary Hub, there is a poorly regulated pipeline of Kindle Direct Publishing, which means the fake AI generated book is unfortunately nothing new. Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Authors Guild, has observed an increase in the trend: “Every new book seems to have some kind of companion book, some book that’s trying to steal sales.”

Authors can file a report to have copyright infringing copy removed from Amazon. And at this moment, it looks like Hanna or one of her advocates has removed some of the fakes that are titled Kathleen Hanna Biography Book: Punk Feminist Queen in the Spotlight, and Kathleen Hanna: Breaking Barriers, Breaking Silence are no longer available for purchase.