The robot footage from Haidilao's Cupertino location did not create a debate — it absorbed one. A choreographed dance that went wrong, sending tableware across the dining room, became legible to each community through the lens of whatever argument it was already making about AI. The clip's virality was not a function of what happened in the restaurant. It was a function of how much argumentative utility the footage offered to people who needed an image for a position they already held. The communities that saw in it a labor…