They are not souls but normal humans with physical bodies. The story is just a normal torture story (with a cool title), and everyone better stop acting like it was relevant in most conversations, like in this one.
>Those are "souls" of humans that a AI is torturing in that story though, not exactly analogous, but it does sound funny.
Yeah well there seems to be some real concerns regarding how people use AI chat[1]. Of course this could be also the case with these people on social media.