Law / United States / 
Maine
Technology-facilitated sexual abuse of minors, AI-generated and modified child sexual abuse material (LD 524)
17-A M.R.S. sections 281 to 284 (P.L. 2025, c. 719)
In force since .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
As of .
What it requires
- 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.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
What it makes you log
Logging duty
The amended sections define offenses involving child sexual abuse material, including AI-generated images, and state no duty to keep a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Maine amended its sexual exploitation of minors, dissemination, and possession offenses so that child sexual abuse material includes any image, including a computer-generated image, that depicts or has been 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. Intentionally or knowingly modifying or altering an image of an identifiable child to create child sexual abuse material is a Class B crime.
Intentionally or knowingly manufacturing or creating obscene child sexual abuse material, including by using generative AI or machine learning, when the person knows or has reason to know what it is, is also a Class B crime. Intentionally or knowingly disseminating, or possessing with intent to disseminate, obscene child sexual abuse material, including an image created using generative AI or machine learning, is a Class C crime. LD 524 was enacted as Public Law chapter 719. The Governor approved it on . It is an emergency act that takes effect when approved.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates content with AI or publishes adult content.