bum steer

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But sometimes you can’t, like when you ask a chatbot a factual question and get a bum steer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

It was a bum steer: we didn’t make a dent in it and nearly fainted when we got a bill for $58.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2012

A few years later, I was given another bum steer, this time by lovelorn indie music.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2011

There’s a proud skunk owner from Atlanta, a pizza deliveryman from San Bernardino and a bill collector from Denver given a bum steer while tracing a debt.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 1999

I got a hunch mebbe it's a bum steer, but you can't be sure till you try it.

From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod