Rage of the machine: An AI* makes metal music

As a teenager, I played in a small-town metal band. This was the nineties so our music was heavily influenced by the nu-metal movement. In other words, our songs sounded a whole lot like a wild mix of Korn, System of a Down, Incubus, and other popular bands from that era. I've long been asking myself whether our songwriting process was all that different from how modern generative language models work. After all, we were only "riffing" on what we had learned during musical training (pre-training) and by listening to our favorite bands (fine-tuning)?