Well, they WERE just AIs, but mind you, ones that hadn't yet developed into people? So when they were uploaded they were blank slates of "real people", but... it was weird that people like Cielo who were... definitely very dead for sure as far as I know came back. He's the for-sure one I know of...

[ Chin tap... ]

So I guess we both have weird situations kinda... like that... what if we're all just AIs?