I'm not big into "conspiracy" but you gotta wonder why this "NeuralHash" file on my computer exists if "NeuralHash" was supposedly delayed, according to Apple, on an undetermined timeline.
If I did want to cook up conspiracy theory, it would be easy: Apple wants to distract from the fact that NeuralHash was broken by researchers. This project apparently is able to create CSAM collisions:
https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX
If NeuralHash is really rolled out, and if this python project can really create collisions, the CSAM system could be DDoS'd by people on their own computers, jamming up Apple's internal censorship review system with false positives. Hence, Apple would be incentivized to sweep this under the rug by "delaying" rollout indeterminately.