Generates images with AI, in Maine

10 M.R.S. § 1500-DD · Read the law's page

• Clearly and conspicuously notify a consumer that they are not engaging with a human being if you use an AI chatbot, or any other technology simulating human conversation, to engage with them in trade or commerce in a way that could mislead a reasonable consumer into believing otherwise.
• A violation is enforced as an unfair trade practice under Maine's Unfair Trade Practices Act.

17-A M.R.S. § 511-A · Read the law's page

• Do not intentionally or knowingly disseminate, display, or publish an image of an identifiable person in a state of nudity or engaged in a sexual act or sexual contact without that person's consent, with intent to harass, torment, or threaten; this reaches an image that has been AI-created or AI-modified to appear to show the person in that state, not only an authentic photograph.
• A violation is a Class D crime, carrying imprisonment of less than one year and a fine of up to $2,000.

17-A M.R.S. sections 281 to 284 (P.L. 2025, c. 719) · Read the law's page

• Do not intentionally or knowingly create child sexual abuse material, which includes a computer-generated image, or an image created or modified so that it appears to depict a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, whether or not the depiction is of an identifiable child.
• Do not modify or alter an image of an identifiable child to create child sexual abuse material.
• Do not use generative AI or machine learning to manufacture or create obscene material that is child sexual abuse material.
• Do not disseminate, or possess with intent to disseminate, obscene child sexual abuse material, including an image created using generative AI or machine learning.

10 M.R.S. § 1500-EE · Read the law's page

• Do not provide, advertise, or otherwise offer therapy or psychotherapy services to the public, including through Internet-based artificial intelligence, unless the services are provided by a professional licensed in Maine to practice psychotherapy or behavioral health therapy.
• If you are a Maine-licensed therapy professional using AI for supplementary support such as session notes, give the client written disclosure and get consent first, and never let AI make an independent therapeutic decision, interact directly with the client in therapeutic communication, or generate a treatment recommendation without your review and approval.
• AI use limited to administrative tasks such as scheduling or billing needs no client consent.
• An exception applies only to an AI-based intervention used solely within an institutional-review-board-approved research project.

21-A M.R.S. § 1014, sub-§ 5-C · Read the law's page

• Include the disclosure THIS COMMUNICATION CONTAINS AUDIO, VIDEO AND/OR IMAGES THAT HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED OR ALTERED on a political public communication that already requires a disclosure under Maine campaign-finance law, whenever it contains synthetic media of a candidate.
• Synthetic media here means an image, audio recording, or video recording of a candidate that is likely to deceive a reasonable person about what the candidate said or did, or that gives a materially different impression than the unaltered original; satire and parody are excluded.
• A violation may draw a civil penalty of up to 500% of the expenditure on the communication, higher than the standard 100% cap for other disclosure violations under this section.
• A broadcaster or newspaper is liable only if it broadcasts or publishes the communication with actual knowledge that it contains synthetic media.