# False positive

> An example in which the model mistakenly predicts the positive class. For example, the model predicts that a particular email message is *spam* (the positive class), but that email message is *actually not spam*.[^1]

An example in which the [model](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Model%20(machine%20learning.txt)) mistakenly predicts the [positive class](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Positive%20class%20(machine%20learning.txt)). For example, the model predicts that a particular email message is *spam* (the positive class), but that email message is *actually not spam*.[^1]

## Footnotes

[^1]: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary#FP