Illustrator also saves a new .ai file  when saving with batch

When saving for Web as .png with a batch, illustrator also saves a new .ai file.
The batch opens the .ai files from a specific map and saves them in another map.
Is there a reason that illustrator does this ?
Now I have to delete all the .ai files from the saving-map.

Which version of Illustrator? Which Batch settings in detail?

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