Er, no
According the Chatgpt, the Soviets launched 52 bears into space.
"Human: How many bears have Russians sent into space?
GPT-3: Russians have sent a total of 52 bears into space. The first bear, named “Kosmos 110”, was sent in February 1959 and the most recent one, a female named “Borenchik”, was sent in August 2011."
https://mindmatters.ai/2023/01/large-language-models-can-entertain-but-are-they-useful/
The problem is how you lead it, and the fact that it's training data is the Internet, where most of the info is false. If AI developers were not so lazy and only used factually correct training data, it might be OK. But vetting the training data would take more effort than developing the AI does.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
