Over the past several months, the Tribeca Festival, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, independent film studio A24, and the inaugural Generated Awards have signaled a shift toward recognizing AI creators as legitimate members of the creative community. At Tribeca, *Dreams of Violets* became the first fully AI-generated feature film accepted into the official lineup of a major U.S. film festival. Directed by Iranian-born brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha, the 75-minute docudrama tells the story of Iranian civilians caught in political violence using AI-generated imagery, as the filmmakers turned to AI because they were unable to safely film inside Iran. At Cannes, approximately 40% of all Cannes Lions entries disclosed using artificial intelligence in some capacity during production, a figure that has doubled from 20% just one year earlier and nearly quadrupled from only 11% in 2024. Cannes introduced stricter disclosure rules this year, and total entries declined by roughly 25%. Earlier this year, New York City hosted the inaugural Generated Awards, the first awards program dedicated entirely to AI-generated commercial advertising, which celebrated completed work created using tools such as Sora, Veo, Runway Gen-4, and Kling.