IIRC, in supplementary material (maybe the Animatrix?) it’s revealed that the machines kept trying to sue for peace, but the humans insisted it had to be genocide, so the machines settled on the Matrix as their way not to have to kill all humans.
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IIRC, in supplementary material (maybe the Animatrix?) it’s revealed that the machines kept trying to sue for peace, but the humans insisted it had to be genocide, so the machines settled on the Matrix as their way not to have to kill all humans.