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# Pliny the Liberator: 'WTF IS THIS' over Muse Spark Open's gated download form (legal name, date of birth, organization)

Pliny the Liberator (@elder_plinius), X, 2026-10-15.
Source: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/2110798024998113708

## Why it matters

Highest-reach criticism of the Muse Spark Open access terms (~171k views).

## Summary

The post is a screenshot of the Hugging Face page for meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B-NVFP4 under the "muse-model-license", whose
form asks for "your full legal name, date of birth, and full organization name with all corporate identifiers" and warns that answers
cannot be edited; the caption is "WTF IS THIS". ~171k views, ~2.9k likes by Oct 16 morning (fxtwitter).

## Archived text

> WTF IS THIS 🤬

Archived 2026-10-16 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 175,355 views, 2,901 likes, 114 reposts, 245 replies (at fetch time)
Media: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUsOs7RacAAdmal.jpg?name=orig

## Cited in

- 2026-10-15: [Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model built with Apple to run on Mac Studios](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-15-meta-muse-spark-open/)