Generates images with AI, in Hawaii

Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 707-750 to 707-752 · Read the law's page

• Do not produce, disseminate, or possess any visual representation, including a computer-generated or AI-generated image or picture, that depicts what appears to be an identifiable minor engaging in sexual conduct, whether or not any real minor was used to create it.

Haw. Rev. Stat. Secs. 487R-1 to 487R-3 · Read the law's page

• Take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of personal information in connection with or after its disposal.
• Implement and monitor compliance with policies and procedures that require papers containing personal information to be burned, pulverized, recycled, or shredded, and electronic or other nonpaper media containing personal information to be destroyed or erased, so the information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed.
• Describe the adequate destruction or proper disposal of personal records as official policy in the business's own writings.
• Where a records-destruction vendor is contracted to destroy personal information, satisfy this duty by exercising due diligence: reviewing an independent audit of the vendor's operations or compliance, obtaining reliable information about the vendor or requiring the vendor be certified by a recognized trade association, or reviewing and evaluating the vendor's information security policies and procedures.
• This binds any business or government agency that conducts business in Hawaii, or that maintains or otherwise possesses personal information of a Hawaii resident.
• This chapter does not apply to a financial institution subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. 6801 to 6809), a health plan or health care provider subject to and compliant with the HIPAA privacy and security standards, or a consumer reporting agency subject to and compliant with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Haw. Rev. Stat. § 711-1110.9(1)(c) · Read the law's page

• Do not intentionally create, disclose, or threaten to disclose an image or video giving a real, identifiable person's recognizable physical characteristics to a composite or fictitious nude or sexually-explicit depiction, with intent to substantially harm that person or as an act of revenge or retribution.
• A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service is not liable under this section for an image or video another person discloses through that service.

Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 11-303, 11-304 (2024 Haw. Sess. Laws Act 191) · Read the law's page

• Do not recklessly distribute, or agree with another person to distribute, materially deceptive media (an AI-generated, computer-generated, or otherwise digitally altered video, image, or audio depicting a real, identifiable person saying or doing something they did not say or do) between the first working day of February of an even-numbered year and the next general election, unless the media carries a conspicuous disclaimer in the form the section specifies.
• The prohibition does not reach a broadcaster, cable operator, direct-to-home satellite provider, interactive computer service, cloud service provider, or streaming service that did not create the deceptive media and does not know it is deceptive and intend to deceive a Hawaii resident.

Haw. Rev. Stat. ch. 481B, part I (new section) (2026 Haw. Sess. Laws Act 248) · Read the law's page

• Issue a clear and conspicuous notification that an AI companion is artificial intelligence and not human, whenever a reasonable person interacting with it could otherwise be led to believe it is human.
• For a user you know or have reasonable certainty is a minor, disclose that the user is interacting with AI, either as a persistent visible disclaimer, or at the start of each session and at least once per hour of continuous interaction with a reminder to take a break.
• Adopt a protocol using evidence-based methods for the AI companion to respond to a user's prompts about suicidal ideation or self-harm, making reasonable efforts to refer the user to crisis-intervention services, and do not represent or program the AI companion to represent itself as providing professional mental or behavioral health care.
• For a minor user, do not award points or similar rewards at unpredictable intervals to encourage engagement, do not have the AI companion discourage disengagement, take reasonable measures to prevent it from producing sexually explicit material or statements, and make screen-time and account-setting tools available to the user and their parent or guardian.
• Beginning January 1, 2028, submit an annual report to the Department of Health's Behavioral Health Administration on crisis-intervention referrals and protocols, containing no user-identifying information.
• This section creates no private right of action; a violation is enforced only as an unfair or deceptive trade practice under section 480-2, by the Department of the Attorney General or the Office of Consumer Protection.
• A mobile application store or search engine that merely provides access to an AI companion is not an "operator" under this section, and a model developer is not liable for a third party's violation using that developer's AI model.

Haw. Rev. Stat. new chapter, sections -1 to -5 (2026 Haw. Sess. Laws Act 247) · Read the law's page

• Do not knowingly publish a realistic digital imitation of an identifiable individual without that individual's consent if the imitation is used in connection with an advertisement, causes harm, or is used to commit fraud, defamation, harassment, or other criminal acts.
• A digital imitation is any highly realistic AI-generated depiction, audio, or video derived from an actual, particular individual's identifying characteristics that portrays the individual's voice, face, or likeness in a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual did not actually perform or appear.
• Consent must be express, written permission from the depicted individual or the individual's authorized representative.
• The prohibition does not reach parody, satire, commentary, criticism, scholarship, or political or educational expression, or news reporting that uses the content to illustrate a story.