No, Apple's announcement talks about machine learning to power the iMessage nudity detection algorithm. Machine learning in the context of ruining someone's life (and/or landing them on a government watchlist forever) is a huge no in my book.
The reporting isn't helping, with sentences like 'the company is rolling out a new machine-learning tool that will scan iPhones for images that match certain "perceptual hashes"'... is that describing a system that classifies new photos, or is it talking about comparing hashes to a known-evil set?