Duty LXD-6022
Publishes adult content, in Maine
Unauthorized dissemination of certain private images (AI-generated image amendment)since 2 lines
17-A M.R.S. ยง 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.
Technology-facilitated sexual abuse of minors, AI-generated and modified child sexual abuse material (LD 524)since 4 lines
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.