Comment by janalsncm

Alternative explanation:

1) The designation has nothing to do with hacking, either from Anthropic or otherwise. The dispute is about Anthropic barring the DoD from using Claude to develop autonomous weapons and conduct domestic surveillance.

2) The DoD does not care about any of the hacking OpenAI does as long as the DoD can do what they want with ChatGPT.

3) Historically, the US government has been interested in hacking other nation states, friendly and not. So OpenAI being able to hack Australian systems is a selling point.