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No it isn't.
It can be if you use your imagination.
But in all seriousness, auto-tune was invented by geologists who realized that they could use math to correct information from seismographs and then they extrapolated that concept to the concept of audio frequencies.
Gonna need a citation for that one because I don't see it on a quick search for auto tune
Third result on startpage
https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-auto-tune-1991230
From 1976 through 1989, Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist in the geophysical industry, working for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics, a company he co-founded to create the world's first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation.