A massive grift got interrupted while all the pieces were moving into place.
The crypto/NFT guys all seem to be the same people hyping AI.
They had set up a way to pay for things digitally, a way to con people into paying for digital art, and were in the midst of rolling out a way to generate digital art in limitless quantities.
It was a 3-piece chess move to blast them into limitless wealth, but the crypto and NFT market collapsed just before checkmate.
No wonder they're so mad.