How Maine is wading into the regulation of explicit AI-generated images of children

By: Emma Davis

Outlets: Maine Morning Star

Published: January 14, 2026

Words: 709

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Child sexual abuse material is illegal under both state and federal law. It has been for decades. But the advancement of Artificial Intelligence created loopholes.

That was shown over the summer when a man in Maine used AI to manipulate pictures he took of children playing in a soccer game into sexually explicit images. Police knew who the man was and what he was doing but couldn’t charge him with a crime under Maine …

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