October saw a high for Meta and Lionsgate, who signed a landmark deal to train video models on cinematic archives legally. This was the first major peace treaty between Big Tech and Big Media. The low was a massive surge in “AI-slop”—low-quality, AI-generated movies flooding streaming platforms and burying independent creators. While the industry leaders found a way to collaborate, the middle-market creators found themselves squeezed out by an infinite supply of algorithmically generated content.