system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Matrix] Are humans the only lifeforms populating the matrix?

What about apes or monkeys? Dogs and cats?
gpt
The machines were, at the end, made to protect and serve humans. Not apes. Not dogs. Not any other living being. Thus when the war came, and the Machines decided that protecting humanity meant putting them in the Matrix, other animals were not part of that plan.