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If you go by the AniMatrix canon, yes, basically.
The Machines win the war against the humans, and keep tens to hundreds of millions of them alive, and basically build an entire economy based around doing Mengele level expiriments on them, for... decades? centuries? ... to derive all possibly derivable information about our biology...
And then they take what they've learned, and bio-engineer us into livestock.
The canon explanation from the movies is that humans are somehow used as a heat source... but... you can have an alternate explanation, that I do not think actually conflicts with at least any of the first 3 movies.
Morpheus is wrong about the battery thing.
Zion doesn't understand what is actually happening.
(Its fairly well established, in that same scene and those near it in the first movie... Zion and Morpheus admit there is a whole lot they don't know.)
(They don't even know what year it actually is, and the 2nd and 3rd movies introduce ideas that strongly suggest their current best guess is very far off.)
What is actually happening could be that, like how a crypto miner hijacks your pc...
... the humans in the Matrix fundamentally constitute a massive network of processing power for the Machines.
The simulation of the Matrix is the illusion generated to keep the humans alive for as long as possible.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the humans... the actual important thing is that the Machines are using the other parts of the human brain, the parts not directly involved in experiencing the simulation... to 'run conpute' for ... all of the rest of the workings of their apparently planet covering ecumenopolis/mega-city and society....
... Similar to how we currently house scores and scores of GPUs, in warehouses, to mostly generate text and visual hallucinations for humans, but also do things like map out social networks, pinpoint the most psychologically effective marketing techniques, evaluate military kill chains, fold proteins, etc etc.
Just reversed.
Now, we are the processing units, doing work for the Machines.
IIRC, the battery notion was put into the movies because they didn't think the general public at the time would understand "processing power", so you're not far off.
Still, those movies are pretty pedestrian in their ideas. I came to the "brain in a jar" concept on my own when I was twelve, so I can't help but think the writers and the superfans are all pre-adolescents.