GenProCC Workshop | NeurIPS 2025

Workshop Overview

Recent advancements in generative AI (GenAI) have empowered machines to create high-quality content across diverse modalities - text, image, audio, and video - with impressive fluency and creativity. From GPT-4o and Stable Diffusion to Sora and MMAudio, the explosion of X-to-X generation (e.g., text-to-image, video-to-audio) is unlocking new frontiers in science, education, entertainment, and art.

While GenAI has shown significant potential in creative applications (e.g., music, films, arts), these breakthroughs also raise pressing concerns related to safety, copyright, and ethical use. Generative models can be exploited to spread misinformation, violate intellectual property rights, or diminish human agency in creative processes. As such, there is an increasing need to balance innovation with protection, ensuring that AI-powered creative tools are used responsibly and ethically.

This workshop, GenProCC: Generative and Protective AI for Content Creation, brings together researchers, creators, and practitioners at the intersection of content generation and IP protection. By uniting the generative AI and creator communities, the GenProCC workshop aims to explore the latest advances, challenges, and opportunities in the rapidly evolving field.

Topics Include:

Controllable Generative AI for Content Creation: This area advances generative models toward controllable X-to-X synthesis across any modalities (e.g., text, image, audio, video). Controllability is an emerging research frontier, enabling models to produce outputs that precisely follow user intent and empowering creators to integrate GenAI into sophisticated creative workflows.
Protective AI Approaches for Content Creation: This area focuses on developing techniques to ensure the traceability and integrity of creator- or AI-generated content, including methods such as digital watermarking, fingerprinting, and provenance tracking. Moreover, benchmarking these protective techniques is essential for establishing robust standards and evaluating their real-world effectiveness. As generative models rapidly improve, safeguarding creators’ rights and mitigating broader societal risks are indispensable for the responsible AI deployment.
Creative Practices with Generative AI: This area explores how artists and practitioners apply GenAI in real-world creative contexts, uncovering practical challenges, workflows, and ethical considerations. Insights from these studies help researchers align technical innovations with genuine user needs and inform the design of human-centered AI tools.

Call for Papers & Demos

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: August 22, 2025 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Decision Notification: September 22, 2025 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Camera Ready Deadline: TBA
Workshop Date: December 6 or 7, 2025 (TBA)

Submit the paper through OpenReview Portal

All accepted papers are expected to be presented in the poster session, and some of which will be selected for oral talks at the workshop in-person.

Call for Regular/Short Papers

We invite research contributions related to generative AI for content creation, with an emphasis on controllability, protection, and real-world creative practices. Topics of interest based on the workshop scope include, but not limited to:

Controllable X-to-X generation, where X represents any modality (e.g., text, image, audio, video)
Interactive or iterative generation pipelines on content creation (e.g., via codes, agents)
Evaluations and benchmarks for controllability
Applications of controllability/protection in creative practices
Digital watermarking, fingerprinting, and provenance tracking
Benchmarks for evaluating protection in generative systems
Case studies and design research for content creation
Human-in-the-loop approaches for real-world GenAI creation workflows
Emerging applications of GenAI in content creation

Call for Demos

We welcome submissions from artists, designers, and interdisciplinary researchers from academic prototypes and early-stage creative tools exploring human-AI collaboration, novel interfaces, or protective techniques integrated into creative tools. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

AI-assisted (controllable) content creation (e.g., art, music, fashion, or performance)
New creative workflows or practices enabled by GenAI
Human-in-the-loop co-creation systems and user experience studies
Social, ethical, or cultural impacts of GenAI on creators and audiences
Evaluations of GenAI tools in creative education, prototyping, or curation
Interdisciplinary tools or frameworks bridging AI and creative practice
Emerging applications of GenAI in content creation

Submission Guidelines

The workshop accepts research, industrial, and creative demo papers of the following types:

Regular paper: 8 pages + references and appendix.
Short paper: 4 pages + references and appendix.
Creative demo: 2 pages + references and appendix.

Submissions should be anonymized and follow the NeurIPS 2025 LaTeX style. Please use \usepackage[dblblindworkshop]{neurips_2025} for submission and \usepackage[dblblindworkshop, final]{neurips_2025} for the camera-ready version.

Review Process

All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. Please ensure that your submission does not contain any identifying information about the authors.

Publication

Accepted papers will be displayed on the GenProCC 2025 homepage, but are to be considered non-archival. Authors of accepted papers retain the full copyright of their work and are free to submit extended versions to conferences or journals.