The book “Fall, or Dodge in Hell” has this as a key subplot that people just follow hallucinating meme generating AI feeds untill they are totally brainwashed into doing whatever it hallucinates they should do next
Bashir realizes they are going to crash into two other ships
“AHHHHHHH”
ship shudders as it scrapes between the two incoming ships. Sparks fly dramatically, and Bashir looks over to see O’Brien dressed in a devil costume laughing maniacally